- 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 `them' 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 `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.
- 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 `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.
- 10. These `are' births of Shem: Shem `is' 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 `are' 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 `is' Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife `is' 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.
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