¹ Dies ist das Buch von des Menschen Geschlecht. Da Gott den Menschen schuf, machte er ihn nach dem Bilde Gottes;

² und schuf sie einen Mann und ein Weib und segnete sie und hieß ihren Namen Mensch zur Zeit, da sie geschaffen wurden.

³ Und Adam war hundertunddreißig Jahre alt und zeugte einen Sohn, der seinem Bild ähnlich war und hieß ihn Seth

⁴ und lebte darnach achthundert Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter;

⁵ daß sein ganzes Alter ward neunhundertunddreißig Jahre, und starb.

⁶ Seth war hundertundfünf Jahre alt und zeugte Enos

⁷ und lebte darnach achthundertundsieben Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter;

⁸ daß sein ganzes Alter ward neunhundertundzwölf Jahre, und starb.

⁹ Enos war neunzig Jahre alt und zeugte Kenan

¹⁰ und lebte darnach achthundertundfünzig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter;

¹¹ daß sein ganzes Alter ward neunhundertundfünf Jahre, und starb.

¹² Kenan war siebzig Jahre alt und zeugte Mahalaleel

¹³ und lebte darnach achthundertundvierzig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter;

¹⁴ daß sein ganzes Alter ward neunhundertundzehn Jahre, und starb.

¹⁵ Mahalaleel war fünfundsechzig Jahre und zeugte Jared

¹⁶ und lebte darnach achthundertunddreißig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter;

¹⁷ daß sein ganzes Alter ward achthundert und fünfundneunzig Jahre, und starb.

¹⁸ Jared war hundertzweiundsechzig Jahre alt und zeugte Henoch

¹⁹ und er lebte darnach achthundert Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter;

²⁰ daß sein ganzes Alter ward neunhundert und zweiundsechzig Jahre, und starb.

²¹ Henoch war fünfundsechzig Jahre alt und zeugte Methusalah.

²² Und nachdem er Methusalah gezeugt hatte, blieb er in einem göttlichen Leben dreihundert Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter;

²³ daß sein ganzes Alter ward dreihundertfünfundsechzig Jahre.

²⁴ Und dieweil er ein göttliches Leben führte, nahm ihn Gott hinweg, und er ward nicht mehr gesehen.

²⁵ Methusalah war hundertsiebenundachtzig Jahre alt und zeugte Lamech

²⁶ und lebte darnach siebenhundert und zweiundachtzig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter;

²⁷ daß sein ganzes Alter ward neunhundert und neunundsechzig Jahre, und starb.

²⁸ Lamech war hundertzweiundachtzig Jahre alt und zeugte einen Sohn

²⁹ und hieß ihn Noah und sprach: Der wird uns trösten in unsrer Mühe und Arbeit auf der Erde, die der HERR verflucht hat.

³⁰ Darnach lebte er fünfhundert und fünfundneunzig Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter;

³¹ daß sein ganzes Alter ward siebenhundert siebenundsiebzig Jahre, und starb.

³² Noah war fünfhundert Jahre alt und zeugte Sem, Ham und Japheth.

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.