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.