010:030 Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar,
the mountain of the east.
010:031 These are the sons of Shem, after their families,
after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.
010:032 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations,
in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the earth
after the flood.
011:001 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
011:002 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain
in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
011:003 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn
them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used
tar for mortar.
011:004 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower
whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name,
lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
011:005 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children
of men built.
011:006 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have
all one language, and this is what they begin to do.
Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
011:007 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech."
011:008 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface
of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
011:009 Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because there
Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there,
Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
011:010 This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was
one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad