¹ Dette er de ætter som stammer fra Noahs sønner Sem, Kam og Jafet: De fikk sønner efter vannflommen.

² Jafets sønner var Gomer og Magog og Madai og Javan og Tubal og Mesek og Tiras.

³ Og Gomers sønner var Askenas og ifat og Togarma.

⁴ Og Javans sønner var Elisa og Tarsis, Kittim og Dodanim.

⁵ Fra disse bredte de som bor på hedningenes kyster, sig ut i sine land, med sine forskjellige tungemål, efter sine ætter, i sine folkeslag.

⁶ Og Kams sønner var Kus og Misra'im og Put og Kana'an.

⁷ Og Kus' sønner var Seba og Havila og Sabta og aema og Sabteka, og aemas sønner var Sjeba og Dedan.

⁸ Og Kus fikk sønnen Nimrod; han var den første som fikk stort velde på jorden.

⁹ Han var en veldig jeger for Herrens åsyn; derfor sier folk: En veldig jeger for Herrens åsyn som Nimrod.

¹⁰ Først hersket han over Babel og Erek og Akkad og Kalne i landet Sinear.

¹¹ Fra dette land drog han ut til Assur og bygget Ninive og ehobot-Ir og Kalah

¹² og esen mellem Ninive og Kalah; dette er den store stad.

¹³ Og Misra'im blev stamfar til luderne og anamerne og lehaberne og naftuherne

¹⁴ og patruserne og kasluherne, som filistrene er kommet fra, og kaftorerne.

¹⁵ Og Kana'an blev far til Sidon, som var hans førstefødte, og til Het

¹⁶ og til jebusittene og amorittene og girgasittene

¹⁷ og hevittene og arkittene og sinittene

¹⁸ og arvadittene og semarittene og hamatittene; siden bredte kana'anittenes ætter sig videre ut.

¹⁹ Og kana'anittenes grense gikk fra Sidon bortimot Gerar like til Gasa, og bortimot Sodoma og Gomorra og Adma og Sebo'im like til Lesa.

²⁰ Dette var Kams barn, efter sine ætter, med sine tungemål, i sine land, i sine folkeslag.

²¹ Også Sem fikk barn; han var stamfar til alle Ebers barn og var den eldste bror av Jafet.

²² Sems sønner var Elam og Assur og Arpaksad og Lud og Aram.

²³ Og Arams sønner var Us og Hul og Geter og Mas.

²⁴ Og Arpaksad fikk sønnen Salah, og Salah fikk sønnen Eber.

²⁵ Og Eber fikk to sønner; den ene hette Peleg, for i hans dager blev menneskene spredt over jorden; og hans bror hette Joktan.

²⁶ Og Joktan blev far til Almodad og Salef og Hasarmavet og Jarah

²⁷ og Hadoram og Usal og Dikla

²⁸ og Obal og Abimael og Sjeba

²⁹ og Ofir og Havila og Jobab; alle disse var Joktans sønner.

³⁰ De hadde sine bosteder i fjellbygdene i øst fra Mesa bortimot Sefar.

³¹ Dette var Sems barn efter sine ætter, med sine tungemål, i sine land, i sine folkeslag.

³² Dette var Noahs sønners ætter efter sin avstamning, i sine folkeslag; og fra dem har folkene utbredt sig på jorden efter vannflommen.

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.