4. And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.
6. And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.
7. Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there may not understand one another's speech.
8. And so the Lord scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.
9. And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
10. These are the generations of Sem: Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood.
11. And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12. And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Sale.
13. And Arphaxad lived after he begot Sale, three hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters.
14. Sale also lived thirty years, and begot Heber.
15. And Sale lived after he begot Heber, four hundred and three years; and begot sons and daughters.