6. and he said, “Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!
7. Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand one another.”
8. So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9. The city was called Babylon, because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.
10. These are the descendants of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he had a son, Arpachshad.
11. After that, he lived another 500 years and had other children.
12. When Arpachshad was 35 years old, he had a son, Shelah;
13. after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.
14. When Shelah was thirty years old, he had a son, Eber;
15. after that, he lived another 403 years and had other children.
16. When Eber was 34 years old, he had a son, Peleg;