7. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all 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; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
10. This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11. After he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
12. Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Salah.
13. After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
14. Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
15. After he begot Eber, Salah lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
16. Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.
17. After he begot Peleg, Eber lived four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.