¹ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

² And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

³ And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and bitumen had they for mortar.

⁴ And they said, Go to, 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 the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

⁶ And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

⁷ Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

⁸ So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

⁹ Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and brings forth Arphaxad two years after the flood:

¹¹ And Shem lived after he brings forth Arphaxad five hundred years, and brings forth sons and daughters.

¹² And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and brings forth Salah:

¹³ And Arphaxad lived after he brings forth Salah four hundred and three years, and brings forth sons and daughters.

¹⁴ And Salah lived thirty years, and brings forth Eber:

¹⁵ And Salah lived after he brings forth Eber four hundred and three years, and brings forth sons and daughters.

¹⁶ And Eber lived four and thirty years, and brings forth Peleg:

¹⁷ And Eber lived after he brings forth Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and brings forth sons and daughters.

¹⁸ And Peleg lived thirty years, and brings forth Reu:

¹⁹ And Peleg lived after he brings forth Reu two hundred and nine years, and brings forth sons and daughters.

²⁰ And Reu lived two and thirty years, and brings forth Serug:

²¹ And Reu lived after he brings forth Serug two hundred and seven years, and brings forth sons and daughters.

²² And Serug lived thirty years, and brings forth Nahor:

²³ And Serug lived after he brings forth Nahor two hundred years, and brings forth sons and daughters.

²⁴ And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and brings forth Terah:

²⁵ And Nahor lived after he brings forth Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and brings forth sons and daughters.

²⁶ And Terah lived seventy years, and brings forth Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah brings forth Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran brings forth 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 But 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.