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¹ And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,² and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;³ and they each say to his neighbor, "Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly": and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen has been to them for mortar.⁴ And they say, "Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth."

⁵ And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;⁶ and YHWH says, "Behold, the people [is] one, and one language [is] to them all, and this it has dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.⁷ Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion."⁸ And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;⁹ therefore [one] has called its name Babel, for there YHWH has confused the language of all the earth, and from there YHWH has scattered them over the face of all the earth.

¹⁰ These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.¹¹ And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.¹² And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.¹³ And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.¹⁴ And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.¹⁵ And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[or three hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.¹⁶ And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.¹⁷ And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[or three hundred and seventy years]], and begets sons and daughters.¹⁸ And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.¹⁹ And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.²⁰ And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.²¹ And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.²² And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.²³ And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.²⁴ And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.²⁵ And Nahor lives after his begetting Terah one hundred and nineteen years [[or one hundred and twenty-nine years]], and begets sons and daughters.²⁶ And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷ And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;²⁸ and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.²⁹ And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife [is] Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife [is] Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah.³⁰ And Sarai is barren—she has no child.³¹ And Terah takes his son Abram, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, wife of his son Abram, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go toward the land of Canaan; and they come to Haran, and dwell there.³² And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.