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 <FI>them<Fi> thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.
4 - 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 <FI>is<Fi> one, and one pronunciation <FI>is<Fi> 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 <FI>one<Fi> 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 <FI>are<Fi> births of Shem: Shem <FI>is<Fi> 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 <FI>are<Fi> 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 <FI>is<Fi> Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife <FI>is<Fi> 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.
