¹And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,

²and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

³and 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.

⁴And 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.'

⁵And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

⁶and 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.

⁷Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

⁸And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

⁹therefore 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.

¹⁰These [are] births of Shem: Shem [is] a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.

¹¹And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

¹²And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.

¹³And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

¹⁴And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.

¹⁵And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

¹⁶And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.

¹⁷And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

¹⁸And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.

¹⁹And Peleg liveth after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

²⁰And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug.

²¹And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

²²And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor.

²³And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

²⁴And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.

²⁵And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

²⁶And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷And these [are] births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;

²⁸and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

²⁹And 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.

³⁰And Sarai is barren -- she hath no child.

³¹And 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.

³²And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.