The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.10 messagesAs they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.10 messagesThey said one to another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.10 messagesThey said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”12 messagesYahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.8 messagesYahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.8 messagesCome, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”9 messagesSo Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.8 messagesTherefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.8 messagesThis is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.1 messageShem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.1 messageArpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.1 messageArpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.1 messageShelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:1 messageand Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.1 messageEber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.1 messageEber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.1 messagePeleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.1 messagePeleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.1 messageReu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.1 messageReu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.1 messageSerug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.1 messageSerug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.1 messageNahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.1 messageNahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.1 messageTerah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.1 messageNow this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.2 messagesHaran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.2 messagesAbram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.2 messagesSarai was barren. She had no child.2 messagesTerah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.2 messagesThe days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.2 messages