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¹NOW the whole earth spoke one language and with one manner of speech. ²And it came to pass, as men journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sinar; and they settled there. ³And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and burn them with fire. And they had bricks for stone, and slime for mortar. ⁴Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth.

⁵And Yahvah came down to see the city and the tower which men were building. ⁶And Yahvah said, Look, they are one people, and they all have one language; and they have reasoned to do this thing; and now nothing will prevent them from doing that which they have imagined to do. ⁷Come, let us go down there, and divide their language so that they may not understand one another's speech. ⁸So Yahvah scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth; and they ceased from building the city. ⁹Therefore, they called the name of it Babel; because it was there that Yahvah confounded the language of all the earth; and from there Yahvah scattered them on the face of all the earth.

¹⁰These are the descendants of Shem: Shem was 100 years old, and begot Arphakhashar, 2 years after the flood; ¹¹And Shem lived after he begot Arphakhashar 500 years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹²And Arphakhashar lived 35 years, and begot Shalah; ¹³And Arphakhashar lived after he begot Shalah 403 years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁴And Shalah lived 30 years, and begot Eber; ¹⁵And Shalah lived after he begot Eber 403 years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁶And Eber lived 34 years, and begot Peleg: ¹⁷And Eber lived after he begot Peleg 430 years, and begot sons and daughters. ¹⁸And Peleg lived 30 years, and begot Rau; ¹⁹And Peleg lived after he begot Rau 209 years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁰And Rau lived 32 years, and begot Serug; ²¹And Rau lived after he begot Serug 207 years, and begot sons and daughters. ²²And Serug lived 30 years, and begot Nahor; ²³And Serug lived after he begot Nahor 200 years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁴And Nahor lived 29 years, and begot Terah; ²⁵And Nahor lived after he begot Terah 119 years, and begot sons and daughters. ²⁶And Terah lived 70 years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷Now these are the descendants of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. ²⁸And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. ²⁹And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves; the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. ³⁰But Sarai was barren; she had no child. ³¹And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan: and they came as far as Haran, and they settled there. ³²And the days of Terah were 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.