AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shin'ar; and they dwelt there.
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto the heavens; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
And Yahuah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
And Yahuah said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
So Yahuah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because Yahuah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Yahuah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpakshad two years after the flood:
And Shem lived after he begat Arpakshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Arpakshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelach:
And Arpakshad lived after he begat Shelach four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Shelach lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
And Shelach lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Re'u:
And Peleg lived after he begat Re'u two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Re'u lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
And Re'u lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nachor:
And Serug lived after he begat Nachor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terach:
And Nachor lived after he begat Terach a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Terach lived seventy years, and begat Avram, Nachor, and Haran.
Now these are the generations of Terach: Terach begat Avram, Nachor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
And Haran died before his father Terach in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Kasdiym.
And Avram and Nachor took them women: the name of Avram's woman was Sarai; and the name of Nachor's woman, Milkah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milkah, and the father of Yickah.
But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
And Terach took Avram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Avram's woman; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Kasdiym, to go into the land of Kena`an; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
And the days of Terach were two hundred and five years: and Terach died in Haran.