Genesis 11

¹And all the land was of one lip and one set of words. ²And it was as they journeyed from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar, and they settled there. ³And they said, each to his neighbor, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And the brick was to them for stone, and the bitumen was to them for mortar. ⁴And they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, and its top in the skies, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the land."

⁵And YHWH came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of the human had built. ⁶And YHWH said, "See, they are one people and one lip to all of them, and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withheld from them, all which they plan to do. ⁷Come, let us go down and let us confuse there their lip, so that they will not hear, each the lip of his neighbor." ⁸And YHWH scattered them from there over the face of all the land, and they ceased building the city. ⁹Therefore its name was called Bavel, for there YHWH confused the lip of all the land, and from there YHWH scattered them over the face of all the land.

¹⁰These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and he begot Arpakhshad, two years after the flood. ¹¹And Shem lived after he begot Arpakhshad five hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

¹²And Arpakhshad lived thirty-five years, and he begot Shelach. ¹³And Arpakhshad lived after he begot Shelach four hundred and three years, and he begot sons and daughters.

¹⁴And Shelach lived thirty years, and he begot Ever. ¹⁵And Shelach lived after he begot Ever four hundred and three years, and he begot sons and daughters.

¹⁶And Ever lived thirty-four years, and he begot Peleg. ¹⁷And Ever lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

¹⁸And Peleg lived thirty years, and he begot Re'u. ¹⁹And Peleg lived after he begot Re'u two hundred and nine years, and he begot sons and daughters.

²⁰And Re'u lived thirty-two years, and he begot Serug. ²¹And Re'u lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and he begot sons and daughters.

²²And Serug lived thirty years, and he begot Nachor (Nahor). ²³And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

²⁴And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and he begot Terach (Terah). ²⁵And Nahor lived after he begot Terah one hundred and nineteen years, and he begot sons and daughters.

²⁶And Terah lived seventy years, and he begot Avram (Abram), Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. ²⁸And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Kasdim. ²⁹And Abram and Nahor took for themselves wives; the name of the wife of Abram was Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor was Milkah, daughter of Haran, father of Milkah and father of Yiskah. ³⁰And Sarai was barren; she had no child. ³¹And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son; and they went out with them from Ur of the Kasdim to go to the land of Kenaan; and they came as far as Charan, and they settled there. ³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Charan.