11At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary.H776H259H8193H259H16972As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.H5265H6924H4672H1237H776H8152H34273They said to each other, "Come, let us make oven-fired bricks." They had brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.H559H376H7453H3051H3835H3843H8313H8316H3843H68H2564H1961H25634And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth."H559H3051H1129H5892H4026H7218H8064H6213H8034H6327H6440H7765Then the LORD came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building.H3068H3381H7200H5892H4026H1121H120H11296The LORD said, "If, as one people all having the same language, they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.H3068H559H5971H259H259H8193H2490H6213H3808H3605H1219H2161H62137Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another's speech."H3051H3381H1101H8193H834H8085H376H7453H81938So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.H3068H6327H8033H6440H776H2308H1129H58929Therefore its name is called Babylon, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.H8034H7121H894H3068H1101H8193H776H6327H3068H6327H6440H776
From Shem to Abram
10These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the deluge.H8435H8035H8035H3967H8141H1121H3205H775H8141H310H399911After he fathered Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.H8035H2421H310H3205H775H2568H3967H8141H3205H1121H132312Arpachshad lived 35 years and fathered Shelah.H775H2425H2568H7970H8141H3205H797413After he fathered Shelah, Arpachshad lived 403 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.H775H2421H310H3205H7974H702H3967H8141H7969H8141H3205H1121H132314Shelah lived 30 years and fathered Eber.H7974H2425H7970H8141H3205H567715After he fathered Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.H7974H2421H310H3205H5677H702H3967H8141H7969H8141H3205H1121H132316Eber lived 34 years and fathered Peleg.H5677H2421H702H7970H8141H3205H638917After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.H5677H2421H310H3205H6389H702H3967H8141H7970H8141H3205H1121H132318Peleg lived 30 years and fathered Reu.H6389H2421H7970H8141H3205H746619After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.H6389H2421H310H3205H7466H3967H8141H8672H8141H3205H1121H132320Reu lived 32 years and fathered Serug.H7466H2421H8147H7970H8141H3205H828621After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.H7466H2421H310H3205H8286H3967H8141H7651H8141H3205H1121H132322Serug lived 30 years and fathered Nahor.H8286H2421H7970H8141H3205H515223After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.H8286H2421H310H3205H5152H3967H8141H3205H1121H132324Nahor lived 29 years and fathered Terah.H5152H2421H8672H6242H8141H3205H864625After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered [other] sons and daughters.H5152H2421H310H3205H8646H3967H8141H6240H8672H8141H3205H1121H132326Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.H8646H2421H7657H8141H3205H87H5152H203927These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.H8435H8646H8646H3205H87H5152H2039H2039H3205H387628Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans, during his father Terah's lifetime.H2039H4191H6440H1H8646H776H4138H218H377829Abram and Nahor took wives: Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was named Milcah. She was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah.H87H5152H3947H802H8034H87H802H8297H8034H5152H802H4435H1323H2039H1H4435H1H325230Sarai was barren; she had no child.H8297H6135H205631Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.H8646H3947H87H1121H3876H1121H2039H1121H1121H8297H3618H1121H87H802H3318H218H3778H3212H776H3667H935H2771H342732Terah lived 205 years and died in Haran.H3117H8646H3967H8141H2568H8141H8646H4191H2771