:B:1 The whole world had one language and a com mon speech. 2 As people moved from east, they found a plain in the country of Shinar where they settled.
3 They said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and bake them in fire. They used brick for stone and bitu men for mortar. 4 They said also, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top reaching heaven
5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of man were building, 6 and Yahweh said, They are one people and they have one language. If they carry this through, nothing they decide to do from now on will be impossible. 7 Come! Let us go down and confuse their language so that they will no longer understand each other.
8 So Yahweh scattered them over all the earth and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the lan guage of the whole earth and from there Yahweh scattered them over the whole face of the earth.
10These are Shems descendants:
10When Shem was a hundred years old he became the father of Arpachshad, two years af ter the flood. After the birth of Arpachshad, 11Shem lived five hundred years and he had more sons and daughters.
12When Arpachshad was thirty-five years old he became the father of Shelah.13After the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years and he had more sons and daughters.
14When Shelah was thirty years old he became the father of Eber. After the birth of Eber, 15Shelah lived four hundred and three years and he had more sons and daughters.
16When Eber was thirty-four years old he became the father of Peleg. After the birth of Peleg,17Eber lived four hundred and thirty years and he had more sons and daughters.
18When Peleg was thirty years old he became the father of Reu
20When Reu was thirty-two years old he became the father of Serug
22When Serug was thirty years old he became the father of Nahor. After the birth of Nahor,23Serug lived two hundred years and he had more sons and daughters.
24When Nahor was twenty-nine years old he became the father of Terah. After the birth of Terah,25Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years and he had more sons and daughters.
:B:26When Terah was seventy years old he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27These are Terahs descendants: Terah be came the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27 Haran became the father of Lot. 28 Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Abram and Nahor both married: Abrams wife was called Sarai
31Terah took his son Abram, his grand son Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram, and made them leave Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But on arrival in Haran they settled there.32Terah lived two hundred and five years
