1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.⇆ compare2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.⇆ compare3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.⇆ compare4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.⇆ compare5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.⇆ compare6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.⇆ compare7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.⇆ compare8So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.⇆ compare9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.⇆ compare10These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood:⇆ compare11And Shem lived after he begot Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.⇆ compare12And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begot Salah:⇆ compare13And Arphaxad lived after he begot Salah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.⇆ compare14And Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber:⇆ compare15And Salah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.⇆ compare16And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg:⇆ compare17And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.⇆ compare18And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu:⇆ compare19And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.⇆ compare20And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug:⇆ compare21And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.⇆ compare22And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor:⇆ compare23And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.⇆ compare24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah:⇆ compare25And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.⇆ compare26And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.⇆ compare27Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.⇆ compare28And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.⇆ compare29And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.⇆ compare30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.⇆ compare31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.⇆ compare32And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.⇆ compare