¹ 那时，天下人的口音、言语都是一样。

² 他们往东边迁移的时候，在示拿地遇见一片平原，就住在那里。

³ 他们彼此商量说：来罢！我们要作砖，把砖烧透了。他们就拿砖当石头，又拿石漆当灰泥。

⁴ 他们说：来罢！我们要建造一座城和一座塔，塔顶通天，为要传扬我们的名，免得我们分散在全地上。

⁵ 耶和华降临，要看看世人所建造的城和塔。

⁶ 耶和华说：看哪，他们成为一样的人民，都是一样的言语，如今既作起这事来，以後他们所要作的事就没有不成就的了。

⁷ 我们下去，在那里变乱他们的口音，使他们的言语彼此不通。

⁸ 於是耶和华使他们从那里分散在全地上；他们就停工，不造那城了。

⁹ 因为耶和华在那里变乱天下人的言语，使众人分散在全地上，所以那城名叫巴别(就是变乱的意思)。

¹⁰ 闪的後代记在下面。洪水以後二年，闪一百岁生了亚法撒。

¹¹ 闪生亚法撒之後又活了五百年，并且生儿养女。

¹² 亚法撒活到三十五岁，生了沙拉。

¹³ 亚法撒生沙拉之後又活了四百零三年，并且生儿养女。

¹⁴ 沙拉活到三十岁，生了希伯。

¹⁵ 沙拉生希伯之後又活了四百零三年，并且生儿养女。

¹⁶ 希伯活到三十四岁，生了法勒。

¹⁷ 希伯生法勒之後又活了四百三十年，并且生儿养女。

¹⁸ 法勒活到三十岁，生了拉吴。

¹⁹ 法勒生拉吴之後又活了二百零九年，并且生儿养女。

²⁰ 拉吴活到三十二岁，生了西鹿。

²¹ 拉吴生西鹿之後又活了二百零七年，并且生儿养女。

²² 西鹿活到三十岁，生了拿鹤。

²³ 西鹿生拿鹤之後又活了二百年，并且生儿养女。

²⁴ 拿鹤活到二十九岁，生了他拉。

²⁵ 拿鹤生他拉之後又活了一百一十九年，并且生儿养女。

²⁶ 他拉活到七十岁，生了亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰。

²⁷ 他拉的後代记在下面。他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰；哈兰生罗得。

²⁸ 哈兰死在他的本地迦勒底的吾珥，在他父亲他拉之先。

²⁹ 亚伯兰、拿鹤各娶了妻：亚伯兰的妻子名叫撒莱；拿鹤的妻子名叫密迦，是哈兰的女儿；哈兰是密迦和亦迦的父亲。

³⁰ 撒莱不生育，没有孩子。

³¹ 他拉带着他儿子亚伯兰和他孙子哈兰的儿子罗得，并他儿妇亚伯兰的妻子撒莱，出了迦勒底的吾珥，要往迦南地去；他们走到哈兰，就住在那里。

³² 他拉共活了二百零五岁，就死在哈兰。

¹ It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

² that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).

³ All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

⁴ Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.

⁵ In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

⁶ and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

⁷ They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

⁸ The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;

⁹ against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

¹⁰ Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

¹¹ They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

¹² They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

¹³ One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.

¹⁴ When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

¹⁵ He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

¹⁶ He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

¹⁷ The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).

¹⁸ Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

¹⁹ He blessed him, and said, "blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

²⁰ and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand." Abram gave him a tenth of all.

²¹ The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."

²² Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

²³ that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.'

²⁴ I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."