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 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.