Genesis 11

¹Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.

²And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

³And they said to one another: Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. And brick was their stone, and bitumen was their mortar.

⁴Then they said: Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of all the earth.

⁵And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the children of man had built.

⁶And the Lord said: Behold, they are one people and they all have one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

⁷Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.

⁸So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

⁹Therefore its name was called Babel, for there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

¹⁰These are the toledot of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

¹¹And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad five hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

¹²And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelah.

¹³And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.

¹⁴And Shelah lived thirty years and fathered Eber.

¹⁵And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber four hundred and three years and fathered sons and daughters.

¹⁶And Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg.

¹⁷And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg four hundred and thirty years and fathered sons and daughters.

¹⁸And Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu.

¹⁹And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu two hundred and nine years and fathered sons and daughters.

²⁰And Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug.

²¹And Reu lived after he fathered Serug two hundred and seven years and fathered sons and daughters.

²²And Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor.

²³And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor two hundred years and fathered sons and daughters.

²⁴And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah.

²⁵And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah one hundred and nineteen years and fathered sons and daughters.

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

²⁷These are the toledot of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot.

²⁸Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

²⁹And Abram and Nahor took 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 Iscah.

³⁰Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.

³¹Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

³²The days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.