| 1 | And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. |
| 2 | And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. |
| 3 | And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. |
| 4 | And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. |
| 5 | And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. |
| 6 | And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do. |
| 7 | Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. |
| 8 | So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city. |
| 9 | Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. |
| 10 | These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood. |
| 11 | and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 12 | And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah. |
| 13 | and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 14 | And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: |
| 15 | and Shelah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 16 | And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: |
| 17 | and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 18 | And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: |
| 19 | and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 20 | And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: |
| 21 | and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 22 | And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: |
| 23 | and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 24 | And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: |
| 25 | and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. |
| 26 | And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. |
| 27 | Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begat Lot. |
| 28 | And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. |
| 29 | And Abram and Nahor took them wives: 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 the father of Iscah. |
| 30 | And Sarai was barren; She had no child. |
| 31 | And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. |
| 32 | And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. |