¹ Or ce sont ici les générations des enfants de Noé, Sem, Cam et Japheth; auxquels naquirent des enfants après le déluge.

² Les enfants de Japheth sont Gomer, Magog, Madaï, Javan, Tubal, Mésech, et Tiras.

³ Et les enfants de Gomer, Askénaz, Riphath, et Thogarma.

⁴ Et les enfants de Javan, Elisa, Tarsis, Kittim, et Dodanim.

⁵ De ceux-là furent divisées les Iles des nations par leurs terres, chacun selon sa langue, selon leurs familles, entre leurs nations.

⁶ Et les enfants de Cam sont Cus, Mitsraïm, Put, et Canaan.

⁷ Et les enfants de Cus : Séba, Havila, Sabtah, Rahma, et Sebtéca. Et les enfants de Rahma, Séba, et Dédan.

⁸ Cus engendra aussi Nimrod, qui commença d'être puissant sur la terre.

⁹ Il fut un puissant chasseur devant l'Eternel; c'est pourquoi l'on a dit : Comme Nimrod, le puissant chasseur devant l'Eternel.

¹⁰ Et le commencement de son règne fut Babel, Erec, Accad, et Calné au pays de Sinhar.

¹¹ De ce pays-là sortit Assur, et il bâtit Ninive, et les rues de la ville, et Calah,

¹² Et Résen, entre Ninive et Calah, qui est une grande ville.

¹³ Mitsraïm engendra Ludim, Hanamim, Léhabim, Naphtuhim.

¹⁴ Pathrusim, Chasluhim, desquels sont issus les Philistins, et Caphtorim.

¹⁵ Et Canaan engendra Sidon, son fils aîné, et Heth,

¹⁶ Les Jébusiens, les Amorrhéens, les Guirgasiens,

¹⁷ Les Héviens, les Harkiens, et les Siniens,

¹⁸ Les Arvadiens, les Tsémariens, et les Hamathiens. Et ensuite les familles des Cananéens se sont dispersées.

¹⁹ Et les limites des Cananéens furent depuis Sidon, quand on vient vers Guérar, jusqu'à Gaza, en tirant vers Sodome et Gomorrhe, Adma, et Tséboïm, jusqu'à Lésa.

²⁰ Ce sont là les enfants de Cam selon leurs familles [et leurs] langues, en leurs pays, et en [leurs] nations.

²¹ Et il naquit des enfants à Sem, père de tous les enfants d'Héber, et frère de Japheth, [qui était] le plus grand.

²² Et les enfants de Sem sont Hélam, Assur, Arpacsad, Lud, et Aram.

²³ Et les enfants d'Aram, Hus, Hul, Guéther et Mas.

²⁴ Et Arpacsad engendra Sélah, et Sélah engendra Héber.

²⁵ Et à Héber naquirent deux fils : le nom de l'un fut Péleg, parce qu'en son temps la terre fut partagée; et le nom de son frère fut Joktan.

²⁶ Et Joktan engendra Almodad, Séleph, Hatsarmaveth, et Jérah.

²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Dikla,

²⁸ Hobal, Abimaël, Séba,

²⁹ Ophir, Havila, et Jobab. Tous ceux-là sont les enfants de Joktan.

³⁰ Et leur demeure était depuis Mésa, quand on vient en Séphar, montagne d'Orient.

³¹ Ce sont là les enfants de Sem, selon leurs familles [et] leurs langues, en leurs pays, et en [leurs] nations.

³² Telles sont les familles des enfants de Noé, selon leurs lignées en leurs nations; et de ceux-là ont été divisées les nations sur la terre après le déluge.

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

² It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

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

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

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

⁶ Yahweh 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.

⁷ Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

²⁶ Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷ Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

²⁸ Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

²⁹ Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.

³⁰ Sarai was barren. She had no child.

³¹ Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

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