¹ На всей земле был один язык и одно наречие.

² Двинувшись с востока, они нашли в земле Сеннаар равнину и поселились там.

³ И сказали друг другу: наделаем кирпичей и обожжем огнем. И стали у них кирпичи вместо камней, а земляная смола вместо извести.

⁴ И сказали они: построим себе город и башню, высотою до небес, и сделаем себе имя, прежде нежели рассеемся по лицу всей земли.

⁵ И сошел Господь посмотреть город и башню, которые строили сыны человеческие.

⁶ И сказал Господь: вот, один народ, и один у всех язык; и вот что начали они делать, и не отстанут они от того, что задумали делать;

⁷ сойдем же и смешаем там язык их, так чтобы одинне понимал речи другого.

⁸ И рассеял их Господь оттуда по всей земле; и они перестали строить город.

⁹ Посему дано ему имя: Вавилон, ибо там смешал Господь язык всей земли, и оттуда рассеял их Господь по всей земле.

¹⁰ Вот родословие Сима: Сим был ста лет и родил Арфаксада, чрез два года после потопа;

¹¹ по рождении Арфаксада Сим жил пятьсот лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

¹² Арфаксад жил тридцать пять лет и родил Салу.

¹³ По рождении Салы Арфаксад жил четыреста три года и родил сынов и дочерей.

¹⁴ Сала жил тридцать лет и родил Евера.

¹⁵ По рождении Евера Сала жил четыреста три года и родил сынов и дочерей.

¹⁶ Евер жил тридцать четыре года и родил Фалека.

¹⁷ По рождении Фалека Евер жил четыреста тридцать лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

¹⁸ Фалек жил тридцать лет и родил Рагава.

¹⁹ По рождении Рагава Фалек жил двести девять лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

²⁰ Рагав жил тридцать два года и родил Серуха.

²¹ По рождении Серуха Рагав жил двести семь лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

²² Серух жил тридцать лет и родил Нахора.

²³ По рождении Нахора Серух жил двести лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

²⁴ Нахор жил двадцать девять лет и родил Фарру.

²⁵ По рождении Фарры Нахор жил сто девятнадцать лет и родил сынов и дочерей.

²⁶ Фарра жил семьдесят лет и родил Аврама, Нахораи Арана.

²⁷ Вот родословие Фарры: Фарра родил Аврама, Нахора и Арана. Аран родил Лота.

²⁸ И умер Аран при Фарре, отце своем, в земле рождения своего, в Уре Халдейском.

²⁹ Аврам и Нахор взяли себе жен; имя жены Аврамовой: Сара; имя жены Нахоровой: Милка, дочь Арана, отца Милки и отца Иски.

³⁰ И Сара была неплодна и бездетна.

³¹ И взял Фарра Аврама, сына своего, и Лота, сына Аранова, внука своего, и Сару, невестку свою, жену Аврама, сына своего, и вышел с ними изУра Халдейского, чтобы идти в землю Ханаанскую; но, дойдя до Харрана,они остановились там.

³² И было дней жизни Фарры двести пять лет, и умер Фарра в Харране.

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.