2. And as people migrated from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3. And they said to each other, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar.
4. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches to the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5. Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that humankind was building.
6. And Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people with one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.
7. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand each other’s language.”
8. So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.
9. Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
10. These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood.
11. And Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arphaxad, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
12. When Arphaxad had lived thirty-five years, he fathered Shelah.
13. And Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Shelah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
14. When Shelah had lived thirty years, he fathered Eber.
15. And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Eber, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
16. When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he fathered Peleg.
17. And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he fathered Peleg, and he fathered other sons and daughters.
18. When Peleg had lived thirty years, he fathered Reu.