Bereshit 11

And all the dwellers of the earth were of one language and one speech.

And when they had journeyed from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar; and they settled there.

And one to another they said: 'Come, let us mold bricks, and bake them by firing.' And the brick was for them as stone, and the bitumen was for them as mortar.

They said: 'Come, let us build for ourselves a town, and a tower whose top approaches close to the sky; and let us make for ourselves names, lest we be scattered upon the face of all the earth.'

And God sent down a directed command, to look upon the town and the tower which the children of Adam had begun to build.

And God said: 'Behold, they are as one people, and one language for them all; and this is what they have begun to do; and now, nothing will be beyond them — all that they have set their minds to do.

Yet we shall send down a directed command, that by it we may scatter their languages, so that each group shall not hear the language of its fellow.'

And God scattered them from there upon the face of all the earth; and they ceased from building the town.

Therefore it was named Babel — for there God scattered the language of all the dwellers of the earth; and from there God dispersed them upon the whole face of it.

This is the exposition of the offspring of Shem. When Shem was a son of a hundred years, he begot Arpachshad — two years after the flood.

And Shem lived after that five hundred years, in which he begot sons and daughters.

And when Arpachshad had lived thirty-five years, he begot Shelah.

And Arpachshad lived after that four hundred and three years, in which he begot sons and daughters.

And when Shelah had lived thirty years, he begot Eber.

And Shelah lived after that four hundred and three years, in which he begot sons and daughters.

And when Eber had lived thirty-four years, he begot Peleg.

And Eber lived after that four hundred and thirty years, in which he begot sons and daughters.

And when Peleg had lived thirty years, he begot Reu.

And Peleg lived after that two hundred and nine years, in which he begot sons and daughters.

And when Reu had lived thirty-two years, he begot Serug.

And Reu lived after that two hundred and seven years, in which he begot sons and daughters.

And when Serug had lived thirty years, he begot Nahor.

And Serug lived after that two hundred years, in which he begot sons and daughters.

And when Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he begot Terah.

And Nahor lived after that a hundred and nineteen years, in which he begot sons and daughters.

And when Terah had lived seventy years, he begot Abram, and Nahor, and Haran.

And this is the exposition of the offspring of Terah, for he begot Abram, and Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.

And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in the furnace of the Chaldeans.

And Abram and Nahor took for themselves wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife was Milkah, daughter of Haran, father of Milkah and father of Yiskah.

And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, the son of his son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son; and they went forth with them from the furnace of the Chaldeans, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and settled there.

And the lifetime of Terah was two hundred and five years; and he died in Haran.