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The city and tower of Babel

¹At that time the whole world had one language and a common vocabulary. ²As people moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.^{a 3}They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them hard.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar. ⁴Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” ⁵But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people were building. ⁶And the LORD said, “They are one people with one language, and this is only the start of what they will do. From now on nothing they set out to do will be out of their reach. ⁷Come, let us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another.” ⁸So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. ⁹That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

From Shem to Abram

¹⁰This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arpachshad. ¹¹After Arpachshad was born, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹²When Arpachshad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah.^{b 13}After Shelah was born, Arpachshad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁴When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber. ¹⁵After Eber was born, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁶When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg. ¹⁷After Peleg was born, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

¹⁸When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Reu. ¹⁹After Reu was born, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

²⁰When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug. ²¹After Serug was born, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

²²When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor. ²³After Nahor was born, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

²⁴When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah. ²⁵After Terah was born, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

Terah’s family

²⁶After Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. ²⁷This is the account of Terah’s family. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran, and Haran was the father of Lot. ²⁸Haran died during the lifetime of his father Terah, in the land where he was born, in Ur of the Chaldeans. ²⁹Abram and Nahor both married. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah. ³⁰Now Sarai was barren; she had no children. ³¹Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there. ³²Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.^c