The Tower of Babel

And Joktan hath begotten Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these are sons of Joktan;

and their dwelling is from Mesha, in thy coming towards Sephar, a mount of the east.

These are sons of Shem, by their families, by their tongues, in their lands, by their nations.

These are families of the sons of Noah, by their births, in their nations, and by these have the nations been parted in the earth after the deluge.

And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,

and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.

And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people is one, and one pronunciation is to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

therefore hath one called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

These are births of Shem: Shem is a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.

And Shem liveth after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.

And Arphaxad liveth after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.

And Salah liveth after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Eber liveth four and thirty years, and begetteth Peleg.

And Eber liveth after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

And Peleg liveth thirty years, and begetteth Reu.