1. At first everyone spoke the same language,
2. but after some of them moved from the east and settled in Babylonia,
3-4. they said:Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world.
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.
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:
26-28. After Terah was seventy years old, he had three sons: Abram, Nahor, and Haran, who became the father of Lot. Terah's sons were born in the city of Ur in Chaldea, and Haran died there before the death of his father. The following is the story of Terah's descendants.
29-30. Abram married Sarai, but she was not able to have any children. And Nahor married Milcah, who was the daughter of Haran and the sister of Iscah.