¹ Dies ist das Geschlecht der Kinder Noahs: Sem, Ham, Japheth. Und sie zeugeten Kinder nach der Sintflut.

² Die Kinder Japheths sind diese: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Thubal, Mesech und Thiras.

³ Aber die Kinder von Gomer sind diese: Askenas, Riphath und Thogarma.

⁴ Die Kinder von Javan sind diese: Elisa, Tharsis, Kittim und Dodanim.

⁵ Von diesen sind ausgebreitet die Inseln der Heiden in ihren Ländern, jegliche nach ihrer Sprache, Geschlecht und Leuten.

⁶ Die Kinder von Ham sind diese: Chus, Mizraim, Put und Kanaan.

⁷ Aber die Kinder von Chus sind diese. Seba, Hevila, Sabtha, Raema und Sabtecha. Aber die Kinder von Raema sind diese: Scheba und Dedan.

⁸ Chus aber zeugete den Nimrod. Der fing an ein gewaltiger HERR zu sein auf Erden,

⁹ und war ein gewaltiger Jäger vor dem HERRN. Daher spricht man: Das ist ein gewaltiger Jäger vor dem HERRN, wie Nimrod.

¹⁰ Und der Anfang seines Reichs war Babel, Erech, Ackad und Kalne im Lande Sinear.

¹¹ Von dem Land ist danach kommen der Assur und bauete Ninive und Rehoboth-Ir und Kalah,

¹² dazu Resen zwischen Ninive und Kalah. Dies ist eine große Stadt.

¹³ Mizraim zeugete Ludim, Anamim, Leabim, Naphthuhim,

¹⁴ Pathrusim und Kasluhim. Von dannen sind kommen die Philistim und Kaphthorim.

¹⁵ Kanaan aber zeugete Zidon, seinen ersten Sohn, und Heth,

¹⁶ Jebusi, Emori, Girgasi,

¹⁷ Hivi, Arki, Sini,

¹⁸ Arvadi, Zemari und Hamathi. Daher sind ausgebreitet die Geschlechter der Kanaaniter.

¹⁹ Und ihre Grenzen waren von Zidon an durch Gerar bis gen Gasa, bis man kommt gen Sodoma, Gomorrha, Adama, Zeboim und bis gen Lasa.

²⁰ Das sind die Kinder Hams in ihren Geschlechtern, Sprachen, Ländern und Leuten.

²¹ Sem aber, Japheths, des größern, Bruder, zeugete auch Kinder, der ein Vater ist aller Kinder von Eber.

²² Und dies sind seine Kinder: Elam, Assur, Arphachsad, Lud und Aram.

²³ Die Kinder aber von Aram sind diese: Uz, Hut, Gether und Mas.

²⁴ Arphachsad aber zeugete Salah, Salah zeugete Eber.

²⁵ Eber zeugete zween Söhne. Einer hieß Peleg, darum daß zu seiner Zeit die Welt zerteilet ward; des Bruder hieß Jaketan.

²⁶ Und Jaketan zeugete Almodad, Saleph, Hazarmaveth, Jarah,

²⁷ Hadoram, Usal, Dikela,

²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Seba,

²⁹ Ophir, Hevila und Jobab. Das sind alle Kinder von Jaketan.

³⁰ Und ihre Wohnung war von Mesa an, bis man kommt gen Sephar, an den Berg gegen den Morgen.

³¹ Das sind die Kinder von Sem in ihren Geschlechtern, Sprachen, Ländern und Leuten.

³² Das sind nun die Nachkommen der Kinder Noahs in ihren Geschlechtern und Leuten. Von denen sind ausgebreitet die Leute auf Erden nach der Sintflut.

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.