King James Version, Updated™

(1) The whole world had one language, and one speech.

(2) And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

(3) They said one to another, "Come now, let us make bricks, and burn them throughly." They had bricks for stone, and slime for morter.

(4) And they said, "Come now, let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."

(5) And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men had built.

(6) The LORD said, "Behold, the people are one, and they all have one language, and this is what they have begun to do. Now nothing which they have imagined to do will be restrained from them.

(7) Come now, let us go down there and confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech."

(8) So the LORD scattered them abroad from there to all over the face of the earth, and they ceased building the city.

(9) Therefore, its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad over all the face of the earth.

(10) These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arphaxad two years after the flood.

(11) After he fathered Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years, and had other sons and daughters.

(12) Arphaxad lived 35 years, and fathered Salah.

(13) After he fathered Salah, Arphaxad lived 403 years, and had other sons and daughters.

(14) Salah lived 30 years, and fathered Eber.

(15) After he fathered Eber, Salah lived 403 years, and had other sons and daughters.

(16) Eber lived 34 years, and fathered Peleg.

(17) After he fathered Peleg, Eber lived 430 years, and had other sons and daughters.

(18) Peleg lived 30 years, and fathered Reu.

(19) After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years, and had other sons and daughters.

(20) Reu lived 32 years, and fathered Serug.

(21) After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years, and had other sons and daughters.

(22) Serug lived 30 years, and fathered Nahor.

(23) After he fathered Nahor, Serug lived 200 years, and had other sons and daughters.

(24) Nahor lived 29 years, and fathered Terah.

(25) After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years, and had other sons and daughters.

(26) Terah lived 70 years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

(27) Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.

(28) Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldees.

(29) Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

(31) Terah took his son Abram, and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter in law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan, and when they came to Haran, they dwelt there.

(32) The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.