Genesis

And all the earth was one lip, and one voice to all.

And it came to pass in their moving away from the rising, [that] they found a plain in [the] land of Sennaár. And they dwelt there.

And a human said to his neighbor: "Come, let us make bricks and bake them in fire." And to them, the brick became as stone, and pitch was their clay.

And they said: "Come, let us build to ourselves a city [-state] and tower of which the top will be unto the heaven. And let us make to ourselves a name, before being scattered upon [the] face of all the earth."

And [the] lord went down to see the city [-state] and the tower, which the sons of the humans built.

And [the] lord said: "Behold, [there is] one kind and one lip for all, and they began to do this. It shall now not fail from out of them, all as much as they might attempt to do.

Come, and going down, let us confound their tongue, that they should not hear the voice of the neighbor."

And [the] lord scattered them from there upon the face of all the earth. And they ceased building the city [-state] and the tower.

Because of this, the name of it was called confusion, because there [the] lord confounded the lips of all the earth. And from there [the] lord scattered them upon [the] face of all the earth.

And these [are] the generations of Sem: And Sem was a hundred years when he begot Arphaxad, [the] second year after the cataclysm.

And Sem lived, after his begetting Arphaxad, five hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters, and he died.

And Arphaxad lived hundred thirty five years, and he begot Kaïnan.

And Arphaxad lived, after his begetting Kaïnan, four hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters, and he died. And Kaïnan lived hundred and thirty years and begot Sala. And Kaïnan lived after his begetting Sala, three hundred thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters, and he died.

And Sala lived hundred thirty years, and he begot Eber.

And Sala lived after his begetting Heber, three hundred thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters, and he died.

And Eber lived hundred and thirty four years, and he begot Phaleg.

And Eber lived after his begetting Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and he begot sons and daughters, and he died.

And Phaleg lived thirty and hundred years, and he begot Ragau.

And Phaleg lived after his begetting Ragau nine and two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters, and he died.

And Ragau lived and hundred thirty and two years, and he begot Serouch.

And Ragau lived after his begetting Serouch two hundred seven years, and he begot sons and daughters, and he died.

And Serouch lived hundred thirty years, and begot Nachor.

And Serouch lived after his begetting Nachor two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters, and he died.

And Nachor lived hundred seventy nine years, and begot Thara.

And Nachor lived after his begetting Thara hundred twenty-five years, and he begot sons and daughters, and he died.

And Thara lived seventy years, and he begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arran.

And these [are] the generations of Thara. Thara begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arran. And Arran begot Lot.

And Arran died in the presence of his father Thara, in the land in which he was born, in the region of the Chaldaion.

And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives: [the] name of the wife of Abram [being] Sara, and [the] name of the wife of Nachor [being] Melcha, daughter of Arran. And [he was the] father of Melcha, and [the] father of Iescha.

And Sara was barren, and not able to produce children.

And Thara took his son Abram, and Lot, [the] son of Arran, [the] son of his son, and his daughter-in-law Sara, [the] wife of his son Abram, and he led them from out of the region of the Chaldaion, to go into the land of Chanaán. And they came as far as Charran, and dwelt there.

And all the days of Thara in the land of Charran were two hundred five years. And Thara died in Charran.