1. At first everyone spoke the same language,
2. but after some of them moved from the east and settled in Babylonia,
5. But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,
6. he said:These people are working together because they all speak the same language. This is just the beginning. Soon they will be able to do anything they want.
7. Come on! Let's go down and confuse them by making them speak different languages—then they won't be able to understand each other.
10-11. Two years after the flood, when Shem was one hundred, he had a son named Arpachshad. He had more children and died at the age of six hundred. This is a list of his descendants:
12. When Arpachshad was thirty-five, he had a son named Shelah.
13. Arpachshad had more children and died at the age of four hundred and thirty-eight.
14. When Shelah was thirty, he had a son named Eber.
15. Shelah had more children and died at the age of four hundred and thirty-three.