1 Ora, toda a terra tinha uma só língua e um só idioma.
2 E deslocando-se os homens para o oriente, acharam um vale na terra de Sinar; e ali habitaram.
3 Disseram uns aos outros: Eia pois, façamos tijolos, e queimemo-los bem. Os tijolos lhes serviram de pedras e o betume de argamassa.
4 Disseram mais: Eia, edifiquemos para nós uma cidade e uma torre cujo cume toque no céu, e façamo-nos um nome, para que não sejamos espalhados sobre a face de toda a terra.
5 Então desceu o Senhor para ver a cidade e a torre que os filhos dos homens edificavam;
6 e disse: Eis que o povo é um e todos têm uma só língua; e isto é o que começam a fazer; agora não haverá restrição para tudo o que eles intentarem fazer.
7 Eia, desçamos, e confundamos ali a sua linguagem, para que não entenda um a língua do outro.
8 Assim o Senhor os espalhou dali sobre a face de toda a terra; e cessaram de edificar a cidade.
9 Por isso se chamou o seu nome Babel, porquanto ali confundiu o Senhor a linguagem de toda a terra, e dali o Senhor os espalhou sobre a face de toda a terra.
10 Estas são as gerações de Sem. Tinha ele cem anos, quando gerou a Arfaxade, dois anos depois do dilúvio.
11 E viveu Sem, depois que gerou a Arfaxade, quinhentos anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.
12 Arfaxade viveu trinta e cinco anos, e gerou a Selá.
13 Viveu Arfaxade, depois que gerou a Selá, quatrocentos e três anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.
14 Selá viveu trinta anos, e gerou a Eber.
15 Viveu Selá, depois que gerou a Eber, quatrocentos e três anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.
16 Eber viveu trinta e quatro anos, e gerou a Pelegue.
17 Viveu Eber, depois que gerou a Pelegue, quatrocentos e trinta anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.
18 Pelegue viveu trinta anos, e gerou a Reú.
19 Viveu Pelegue, depois que gerou a Reú, duzentos e nove anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.
20 Reú viveu trinta e dois anos, e gerou a Serugue.
21 Viveu Reú, depois que gerou a Serugue, duzentos e sete anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.
22 Serugue viveu trinta anos, e gerou a Naor.
23 Viveu Serugue, depois que gerou a Naor, duzentos anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.
24 Naor viveu vinte e nove anos, e gerou a Tera.
25 Viveu Naor, depois que gerou a Tera, cento e dezenove anos; e gerou filhos e filhas.
26 Tera viveu setenta anos, e gerou a Abrão, a Naor e a Harã.
27 Estas são as gerações de Tera: Tera gerou a Abrão, a Naor e a Harã; e Harã gerou a Ló.
28 Harã morreu antes de seu pai Tera, na terra do seu nascimento, em Ur dos Caldeus.
29 Abrão e Naor tomaram mulheres para si: o nome da mulher de Abrão era Sarai, e o nome da mulher do Naor era Milca, filha de Harã, que foi pai de Milca e de Iscá.
30 Sarai era estéril; não tinha filhos.
31 Tomou Tera a Abrão seu filho, e a Ló filho de Harã, filho de seu filho, e a Sarai sua nora, mulher de seu filho Abrão, e saiu com eles de Ur dos Caldeus, a fim de ir para a terra de Canaã; e vieram até Harã, e ali habitaram.
32 Foram os dias de Tera duzentos e cinco anos; e morreu Tera em Harã.
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
2 As people moved eastward, "they found a plain in Shinar "and settled there.
3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel "—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
10 This is the account of Shem's family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father "of Arphaxad.
11 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.
13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters. [^5]
14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.
15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.
17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.
19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.
21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.
23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.
25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27 This is the account of Terah's family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
29 Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah.
30 Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.
32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.