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

⁵ And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;⁶ and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people [is] one, and one pronunciation [is] to them all, and this it hath 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, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'⁸ And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;⁹ therefore hath [one] called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

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

²⁷ And these [are] births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;²⁸ and Haran dieth 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 hath no child.³¹ And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, and dwell there.³² And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.