At that time, the accent and language of all people in the world were the same.

When they were migrating to the east, they encountered a plain in the land of Shinah and lived there.

They discussed with each other and said, “Come on, let’s make bricks and burn them thoroughly.”. They used bricks as stones and stone paint as plaster.

They said, Come, let us build a city and a tower, with the top of the tower reaching up to heaven, so that we may proclaim our name, so that we may not be scattered throughout the whole earth.

The Lord has come to see the cities and towers that men have built.

The Lord said, “See, they have become one people, all with the same language. Now that they have done this, there will be nothing that they will not do in the future.”.

Let’s go down there and disrupt their accents, making their words incompatible with each other.

So the Lord dispersed them throughout the whole earth from there. They will stop working and stop building that city.

Because the Lord disrupted the words of all the people there, causing them to be scattered throughout the earth, so the city was called Babel.

The descendants of Shan are recorded below. Two years after the flood, at the age of one hundred, Shem gave birth to Alphazzar.

After Shem gave birth to Alphazzar, he lived five hundred years and had sons and daughters.

Alphazzar lived thirty-five years and gave birth to Salah.

After giving birth to Salah, Alphazzar lived four hundred and three years and had sons and daughters.

Sara lived to thirty years old and gave birth to Heber.

After giving birth to Heber, Salah lived for 403 years and had sons and daughters.

Heber lived to thirty-four years old and gave birth to Phal.

After the birth of Peleg, Hebrew lived another 430 years and gave birth to sons and daughters.

Phal lived until he was thirty years old and gave birth to Laou.

After he gave birth to Laou, he lived another 209 years and had sons and daughters.

Lawu lived until the age of thirty-two and gave birth to Xilu.

After giving birth to Xilu, Lawu lived another 207 years and had children and daughters.

Xilu lived to thirty years old and gave birth to Nahor.

After giving birth to Nahor, Xilu lived for two hundred years and had children and daughters.

Nahe lived until he was twenty-nine years old and gave birth to Tara.

After Nahe gave birth to Tarah, he lived another 119 years and had children and adopted daughters.

He lived for seventy years and gave birth to Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

The descendants of Tarah are recorded below: Tarah gave birth to Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran gave birth to Lot.

Haran died in his native land of Ur in Chaldea before his father Tarah.

Abram and Nahor each married. Abram’s wife’s name is Sarai. Nahor’s wife’s name is Micah, the daughter of Haran. Haran was the father of Micah and Yaga.

Sarai is childless and has no children.

Tarah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of Abram, out of Ur in Chaldea to go to the land of Canaan. They walked to Haran and lived there.

Tarah lived a total of 205 years and died in Haran.