Gênesis 11

¹ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one kind of words.

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

³ And they said to one another, Go to, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And thus the brick served them for stone, and slime served them for mortar.

⁴ And they said, Go to, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower, the top of which may reach unto heaven; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

⁵ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man were building.

⁶ And the Lord said, Behold, it is one people, and they have all one language, and this is the first thing they undertake to do; and now shall they not be restrained in all which they have imagined to do?

⁷ Go to, let us go down, and confound there 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 left off to build the city.

⁹ Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad over the face of all the earth.

¹⁰ These are the generations of Shem: Shem, when a hundred years old, begat Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

¹¹ And Shem lived after he had begotten Arpachshad five hundred years; and begat sons and daughters.

¹² And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelach.

¹³ And Arpachshad lived after he had begotten Shelach four hundred and three years; and begat sons and daughters.

¹⁴ And Shelach lived thirty years, and begat Eber.

¹⁵ And Shelach lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years; and begat sons and daughters.

¹⁶ And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg.

¹⁷ And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years; and begat sons and daughters.

¹⁸ And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.

¹⁹ And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years; and begat sons and daughters.

²⁰ And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug.

²¹ And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years; and begat sons and daughters.

²² And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nachor.

²³ And Serug lived after he had begotten Nachor two hundred years; and begat sons and daughters.

²⁴ And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terach.

²⁵ And Nachor lived after he had begotten Terach a hundred and nineteen years; and begat sons and daughters.

²⁶ And Terach lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran.

²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terach: Terach begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terach in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

²⁹ And Abram and Nachor took themselves wives; the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nachor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Yiscah.

³⁰ But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

³¹ And Terach took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter–in–law, the wife of his son Abram; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Charan, and dwelt there.

³² And the days of Terach were two hundred and five years; and Terach died in Charan.