¹ Dit nu zijn de geboorten van Noachs zonen: Sem, Cham, en Jafeth; en hun werden zonen geboren na den vloed.

² De zonen van Jafeth zijn: Gomer, en Magog, en Madai, en Javan, en Tubal, en Mesech, en Thiras.

³ En de zonen van Gomer zijn: Askenaz, en Rifath, en Togarma.

⁴ En de zonen van Javan zijn: Elisa, en Tarsis; de Chittieten en Dodanieten.

⁵ Van dezen zijn verdeeld de eilanden der volken in hun landschappen, elk naar zijn spraak, naar hun huisgezinnen, onder hun volken.

⁶ En de zonen van Cham zijn: Cusch en Mitsraim, en Put, en Kanaan.

⁷ En de zonen van Cusch zijn: Seba en Havila, en Sabta, en Raema, en Sabtecha. En de zonen van Raema zijn: Scheba en Dedan.

⁸ En Cusch gewon Nimrod; deze begon geweldig te zijn op de aarde.

⁹ Hij was een geweldig jager voor het aangezicht des HEEREN; daarom wordt gezegd: Gelijk Nimrod, een geweldig jager voor het aangezicht des HEEREN.

¹⁰ En het beginsel zijns rijks was Babel, en Erech, en Accad, en Calne in het land Sinear.

¹¹ Uit ditzelve land is Assur uitgegaan, en heeft gebouwd Nineve, en Rehoboth, Ir, en Kalach.

¹² En Resen, tussen Nineve en tussen Kalach; deze is die grote stad.

¹³ En Mitsraim gewon de Ludieten, en de Anamieten, en de Lehabieten, en de Naftuchieten,

¹⁴ En de Pathrusieten, en de Casluchieten, van waar de Filistijnen uitgekomen zijn, en de Caftorieten.

¹⁵ En Kanaan gewon Sidon, zijn eerstgeborene, en Heth,

¹⁶ En de Jesubiet, en de Amoriet, en de Girgasiet,

¹⁷ En de Hivviet, en de Arkiet, en de Siniet,

¹⁸ En de Arvadiet, en de Tsemariet, en de Hamathiet; en daarna zijn de huisgezinnen der Kanaanieten verspreid.

¹⁹ En de landpale der Kanaanieten was van Sidon, daar gij gaat naar Gerar tot Gaza toe; daar gij gaat naar Sodom en Gomorra, en Adama, en Zoboim, tot Lasa toe.

²⁰ Deze zijn zonen van Cham, naar hun huisgezinnen, naar hun spraken, in hun landschappen, in hun volken.

²¹ Voorts zijn Sem zonen geboren; dezelve is ook de vader aller zonen van Heber, broeder van Jafeth, den grootste.

²² Sems zonen waren Elam, en Assur, en Arfachsad, en Lud, en Aram.

²³ En Arams zonen waren Uz, en Hul, en Gether, en Maz.

²⁴ En Arfachsad gewon Selah, en Selah gewon Heber.

²⁵ En Heber werden twee zonen geboren; des enen naam was Peleg; want in zijn dagen is de aarde verdeeld; en zijns broeders naam was Joktan.

²⁶ En Joktan gewon Almodad, en selef, en Hatsarmaveth, en Jarach,

²⁷ En Hadoram, en Usal, en Dikla,

²⁸ En Obal, en Abimael, en Scheba,

²⁹ En Ofir, en Havila, en Jobab; deze allen waren zonen van Joktan.

³⁰ En hun woning was van Mescha af, daar gij gaat naar Sefar, het gebergte van het oosten.

³¹ Deze zijn zonen van Sem, naar hun huisgezinnen, naar hun spraken, in hun landschappen, naar hun volken.

³² Deze zijn de huisgezinnen der zonen van Noach, naar hun geboorten, in hun volken; en van dezen zijn de volken op de aarde verdeeld na den vloed.

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.