¹ 那時，天下人的口音、言語都是一樣。

² 他們往東邊遷移的時候，在示拿地遇見一片平原，就住在那裡。

³ 他們彼此商量說：來罷！我們要作磚，把磚燒透了。他們就拿磚當石頭，又拿石漆當灰泥。

⁴ 他們說：來罷！我們要建造一座城和一座塔，塔頂通天，為要傳揚我們的名，免得我們分散在全地上。

⁵ 耶和華降臨，要看看世人所建造的城和塔。

⁶ 耶和華說：看哪，他們成為一樣的人民，都是一樣的言語，如今既作起這事來，以後他們所要作的事就沒有不成就的了。

⁷ 我們下去，在那裡變亂他們的口音，使他們的言語彼此不通。

⁸ 於是耶和華使他們從那裡分散在全地上；他們就停工，不造那城了。

⁹ 因為耶和華在那裡變亂天下人的言語，使眾人分散在全地上，所以那城名叫巴別(就是變亂的意思)。

¹⁰ 閃的後代記在下面。洪水以後二年，閃一百歲生了亞法撒。

¹¹ 閃生亞法撒之後又活了五百年，並且生兒養女。

¹² 亞法撒活到三十五歲，生了沙拉。

¹³ 亞法撒生沙拉之後又活了四百零三年，並且生兒養女。

¹⁴ 沙拉活到三十歲，生了希伯。

¹⁵ 沙拉生希伯之後又活了四百零三年，並且生兒養女。

¹⁶ 希伯活到三十四歲，生了法勒。

¹⁷ 希伯生法勒之後又活了四百三十年，並且生兒養女。

¹⁸ 法勒活到三十歲，生了拉吳。

¹⁹ 法勒生拉吳之後又活了二百零九年，並且生兒養女。

²⁰ 拉吳活到三十二歲，生了西鹿。

²¹ 拉吳生西鹿之後又活了二百零七年，並且生兒養女。

²² 西鹿活到三十歲，生了拿鶴。

²³ 西鹿生拿鶴之後又活了二百年，並且生兒養女。

²⁴ 拿鶴活到二十九歲，生了他拉。

²⁵ 拿鶴生他拉之後又活了一百一十九年，並且生兒養女。

²⁶ 他拉活到七十歲，生了亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭。

²⁷ 他拉的後代記在下面。他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭；哈蘭生羅得。

²⁸ 哈蘭死在他的本地迦勒底的吾珥，在他父親他拉之先。

²⁹ 亞伯蘭、拿鶴各娶了妻：亞伯蘭的妻子名叫撒萊；拿鶴的妻子名叫密迦，是哈蘭的女兒；哈蘭是密迦和亦迦的父親。

³⁰ 撒萊不生育，沒有孩子。

³¹ 他拉帶著他兒子亞伯蘭和他孫子哈蘭的兒子羅得，並他兒婦亞伯蘭的妻子撒萊，出了迦勒底的吾珥，要往迦南地去；他們走到哈蘭，就住在那裡。

³² 他拉共活了二百零五歲，就死在哈蘭。

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

² Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

³ God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

⁴ God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵ God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

⁶ God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."

⁷ God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

⁸ God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

⁹ God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.

¹⁰ God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

¹¹ God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;" and it was so.

¹² The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.

¹³ There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

¹⁴ God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so.

¹⁶ God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

¹⁷ God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,

¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

²⁰ God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

²¹ God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

²² God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

²³ There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

²⁴ God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.

²⁵ God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

²⁶ God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

²⁷ God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

²⁸ God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

²⁹ God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

³⁰ To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so.

³¹ God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.