5. The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.
6. Then the Lord said: If now, while they are one people and all have the same language, they have started to do this, nothing they presume to do will be out of their reach.
7. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.
8. So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9. That is why it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the speech of all the world. From there the Lord scattered them over all the earth.
10. These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he begot Arpachshad, two years after the flood.
11. Shem lived five hundred years after he begot Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.
12. When Arpachshad was thirty-five years old, he begot Shelah.
13. Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he begot Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.
14. When Shelah was thirty years old, he begot Eber.
15. Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he begot Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.
16. When Eber was thirty-four years old, he begot Peleg.