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¹The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

²As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

³They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

⁴They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

⁵Adonai came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

⁶Adonai 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.

⁷Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not sh'ma ·hear understand obey· one another’s speech.”

⁸So Adonai scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

⁹Therefore its name was called Babel Confusion, because there Adonai confused the language of all the earth. From there, Adonai scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

¹⁰This is the history of the generations of Shem Name: Shem Name was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

¹¹Shem Name lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

¹²Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

¹³Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

¹⁴Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.

¹⁵Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

¹⁶Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

¹⁷Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

¹⁸Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.

¹⁹Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

²⁰Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

²¹Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

²²Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.

²³Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

²⁴Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

²⁵Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

²⁶Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Avram Exalted father, Nahor, and Haran Mountaineer.

²⁷Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Avram Exalted father, Nahor, and Haran Mountaineer. Haran Mountaineer became the father of Lot Veil, Covering.

²⁸Haran Mountaineer died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. (Maftir ·Conclusion·)

²⁹Avram Exalted father and Nahor married wives. The name of Avram Exalted father’s wife was Sarai Mockery, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran Mountaineer who was also the father of Iscah.

³⁰Sarai Mockery was barren. She had no child.

³¹Terah took Avram Exalted father his son, Lot Veil, Covering the son of Haran Mountaineer, his son’s son, and Sarai Mockery his daughter-in-law, his son Avram Exalted father’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan Humbled. They came to Haran Mountaineer and lived there.

³²The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran Mountaineer.