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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 bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had slime for mortar.⁴ And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] to heaven, and let us make us a name; or else we will be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth.

⁵ And Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of man built.⁶ And Yahweh said, Look, they are one people, and they all have one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withheld 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 Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.⁹ Therefore the name of it was called Babel; because there Yahweh confounded the language of all the earth: and from there Yahweh scattered them abroad on the face of all the earth.

¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood.¹¹ and Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.¹² And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot Shelah.¹³ and Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.¹⁴ And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber:¹⁵ and Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.¹⁶ And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg:¹⁷ and Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.¹⁸ And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu:¹⁹ and Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.²⁰ And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug:²¹ and Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.²² And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor:²³ and Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.²⁴ And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah:²⁵ and Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.²⁶ And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begot 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 he had them go out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.³² And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.