Genesis 2:1-11:32 Thus were finished the heavens and the earth, and all their host.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Thus were finished the heavens and the earth, and all their host. ² And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. ³ And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because thereon he had rested from all his work which God had created in making it. ⁴ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, on the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven. ⁵ And every plant of the field was not yet on the earth, and every herb of the field had not yet grown; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and man was not yet there to till the ground. ⁶ But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. ⁷ And the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. ⁸ And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden to the eastward, and he put there the man whom he had formed. ⁹ And the Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁰ And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it was parted, and became four principal streams. ¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon, the same which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. ¹² And the gold of that land is good; there is the bdellium and the onyx stone. ¹³ And the name of the second river is Gihon, the same which compasseth the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Hiddekel, the same which floweth towards the east of Assyria; and the fourth river is the Euphrates. ¹⁵ And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it, and to keep it. ¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; ¹⁷ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for on the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. ¹⁸ And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help suitable for him. ¹⁹ And the Lord God had formed out of the ground every beast of the field, and every fowl of the heaven, and he brought them unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatsoever the man would call every living creature, that should be its name. ²⁰ And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heaven, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help suitable for him. ²¹ And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. ²² And the Lord God formed the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her unto the man. ²³ And the man said, This time it is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; this shall be called Woman, [Ishah,] because out of Man [Ishi] was this one taken. ²⁴ Therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they become one flesh. ²⁵ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. ³ ¹ Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made; and he said unto the woman, Hath God indeed said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? ² And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; ³ But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. ⁴ And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye will surely not die; ⁵ For God doth know, that, on the day ye eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil. ⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. ⁷ And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they felt that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. ⁸ And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. ⁹ And the Lord God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou? ¹⁰ And he said, Thy voice I heard in the garden; and I was afraid, because I am naked; and I hid myself. ¹¹ And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? ¹² And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. ¹³ And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. ¹⁴ And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above all the cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: ¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt wound his heel. ¹⁶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and the suffering of thy conception; in pain shalt thou bring forth children; and for thy husband shall be thy desire, but he shall rule over thee. ¹⁷ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed be the ground for thy sake; in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. ¹⁸ And thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field. ¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. ²⁰ And the man called his wife’s name Eve [Chavvah]; because she was the mother of all living [Chay]. ²¹ And the Lord God made unto Adam and to his wife coats of skins, and clothed them. ²² And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever— ²³ Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴ So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flaming sword which revolveth, to guard the way to the tree of life. ⁴ ¹ And the man knew Eve his wife: and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. ² And she bore again, his brother, Abel; and Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. ³ And it came to pass in process of time, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground and offering unto the Lord. ⁴ And Abel—he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fattest thereof; and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering; ⁵ But unto Cain and to his offering he had no respect; and it was very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance fell. ⁶ And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? ⁷ If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou canst rule over it. ⁸ And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. ⁹ And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel they brother? and he said, I know not; am I my brother’s keeper? ¹⁰ And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. ¹¹ And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand: ¹² When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield its strength unto thee; fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be on the earth. ¹³ And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. ¹⁴ Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and if I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, it will come to pass, that every one that findeth me will slay me. ¹⁵ And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold. And the Lord set a sign unto Cain, that any one finding him should not kill him. ¹⁶ And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. ¹⁷ And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. ¹⁸ And unto Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begat Mechujael: and Mechujael begat Methushael; and Methushael begat Lemech. ¹⁹ And Lemech took unto himself two wives, the name of one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. ²⁰ And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and have cattle. ²¹ And his brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all such as play on the harp and guitar. ²² And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, an artificer in every article of copper and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. ²³ And Lemech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lemech, hearken unto my speech; for I have slain a man to my own wounding, and a young-man to my hurt. ²⁴ If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, truly Lemech seventy and seven-fold. ²⁵ And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Sheth [Seth]; for God said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. ²⁶ And to Sheth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. ⁵ ¹ This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him: ² Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, on the day when they were created. ³ And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his likeness, after his image; and called his name Sheth. ⁴ And the days of Adam after he had begotten Sheth were eight hundred years; and he begat sons and daughters. ⁵ And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died. ⁶ And Sheth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enosh. ⁷ And Sheth lived after he had begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years; and he begat sons and daughters. ⁸ And all the days of Sheth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died. ⁹ And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan. ¹⁰ And Enosh lived after he had begotten Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years; and he begat sons and daughters. ¹¹ And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died. ¹² And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel. ¹³ And Kenan lived after he had begotten Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years; and he begat sons and daughters ¹⁴ And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died. ¹⁵ And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared. ¹⁶ And Mahalalel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hundred and thirty years; and he begat sons and daughters. ¹⁷ And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died. ¹⁸ And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch. ¹⁹ And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years; and he begat sons and daughters. ²⁰ And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years; and he died. ²¹ And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methushelah. ²² And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years; and begat sons and daughters. ²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years. ²⁴ And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more; for God had taken him. ²⁵ And Methushelah lived a hundred eighty and seven years and begat Lemech. ²⁶ And Methushelah lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred eighty and two years; and he begat sons and daughters. ²⁷ And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died. ²⁸ And Lemech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son. ²⁹ And he called his name Noach, [Noah,] saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. ³⁰ And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred ninety and five years; and begat sons and daughters. ³¹ And all the days of Lemech were seven hundred seventy and seven years; and he died. ³² And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ⁶ ¹ And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, ² That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose. ³ And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive for the sake of man, for that he is but flesh; yet his days of grace shall be a hundred and twenty years. ⁴ The giants were on the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; these became the mighty men, who were of old the men of renown. ⁵ And God saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. ⁷ And the Lord said, I will destroy the man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man and beast, and the creeping things and the fowls of the heaven; for it repenteth me that I have made them. ⁸ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. ⁹ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just, perfect man in his generation; Noah walked with God. ¹⁰ And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ¹¹ And the earth was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. ¹³ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them, and I will destroy them with the earth. ¹⁴ Make thee an ark of gopher-wood, rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. ¹⁵ And this is the manner in which thou shalt make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. ¹⁶ A window shalt thou make to the ark, and thou shalt finish it above, to be one cubit broad, and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. ¹⁷ And as regards myself, behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under the heavens; every thing that is on the earth shall perish. ¹⁸ But I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee. ¹⁹ And of every living thing, of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee: male and female shall they be. ²⁰ Of the fowls after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. ²¹ And thou, for thy part, take unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be unto thee, and unto them for food. ²² Thus did Noah; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did. ⁷ ¹ And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy household into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. ² Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven pairs of each, the male and his female; and of beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female. ³ Also of the fowls of the heaven, seven pairs of each, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. ⁴ For after only seven days more, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will blot out every living substance that I have made from off the face of the earth. ⁵ And Noah did all just as the Lord had commanded him. ⁶ And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. ⁷ And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. ⁸ Of the clean beasts, and of the beasts that are not clean, and of the fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, ⁹ One pair of each went in unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ And it came to pass, after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this same day, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. ¹² And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. ¹³ On that self-same day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; ¹⁴ They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird, every thing that hath wings. ¹⁵ And they went in unto Noah into the ark, one pair of each, of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. ¹⁶ And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and then the Lord shut him in. ¹⁷ And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. ¹⁸ And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated along upon the face of the waters. ¹⁹ And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that are under the whole heavens were covered. ²⁰ Fifteen cubits above them did the waters prevail; and the mountains were thus covered. ²¹ And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man. ²² All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that were on the dry land, died. ²³ And it swept off every living substance which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and fowls of the heaven; and they were swept from the earth; and Noah only was left, together with those that were with him in the ark. ²⁴ And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days. ⁸ ¹ And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters were assuaged; ² The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped; and the rain from heaven was restrained. ³ And the waters returned from off the earth, gradually returning; and the waters were abated after the end of the hundred and fifty days. ⁴ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. ⁵ And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen; ⁶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made; ⁷ And he sent forth a raven which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. ⁸ He then sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. ⁹ But the dove found no resting-place for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him unto the ark; for there was water on the face of the whole earth; then he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her into the ark. ¹⁰ And he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. ¹¹ And the dove came in to him at the time of the evening; and, lo, an olive-leaf plucked off was in her mouth; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. ¹² And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; but she returned not again unto him any more. ¹³ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. ¹⁴ And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth perfectly dried up. ¹⁵ And God spoke unto Noah, saying, ¹⁶ Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. ¹⁷ Every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, bring forth with thee; that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. ¹⁸ And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. ¹⁹ Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark. ²⁰ And Noah built an altar unto the Lord, and he took of every clean cattle, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. ²¹ And the Lord smelled the sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man; although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. ²² All the while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. ⁹ ¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. ² And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the heaven; whatever is that moveth upon the earth, and all the fishes of the sea, are delivered into your hand. ³ Every moving thing that liveth shall be yours for food; even as the green herbs have I given you all things. ⁴ But flesh in which its life is, which is its blood, shall ye not eat. ⁵ Your blood, however, on which your lives depend, will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. ⁶ Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made he man. ⁷ And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply thereon. ⁸ And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, ⁹ And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; ¹⁰ And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all those that go out of the ark, for every beast of the earth. ¹¹ And I will establish my covenant with you; and all flesh shall not be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there be any more a flood to destroy the earth. ¹² And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. ¹³ My bow I do set in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ And it shall come to pass, that, when I bring a cloud over the earth, and the bow shall be seen in the cloud, ¹⁵ I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature, of all flesh, that is upon the earth. ¹⁷ And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. ¹⁸ And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark, were Shem, Ham and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan. ¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah, and of them was the whole earth overspread. ²⁰ And Noah, who was a husbandman, began his work, and he planted a vineyard. ²¹ And he drank of the wine, and became drunken; and he uncovered himself within his tent. ²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told it his two brothers without. ²³ And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon the shoulders of both of them, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. ²⁴ And Noah awoke from his wine, and discovered what his younger son had done unto him. ²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. ²⁶ And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem; and Canaan shall be a servant unto them. ²⁷ May God enlarge the boundaries of Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be a servant unto them. ²⁸ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. ²⁹ And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died. ¹⁰ ¹ Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto them were sons born after the flood. ² The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tirass. ³ And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. ⁴ And Javan’s sons: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ⁵ From these were separated the isles of the nations in their lands, every one after his tongue: after their families, in their nations. ⁶ And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizrayim, Put and Canaan. ⁷ And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah, Sabtah and Raamah, and Sabtecha; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. ⁸ And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty man on the earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord. ¹⁰ And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. ¹¹ Out of that land went forth Asshur, and built Nineveh, and the city of Rechoboth, and Calach. ¹² And Ressen between Nineveh and Calach: the same is the great city. ¹³ And Mizrayim begat the Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuchim. ¹⁴ And the Pethrussim, and Casluchin, out of whom came the Pelishtim, and the Caphtorim. ¹⁵ And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth, ¹⁶ And the Jebusite, and the Emorite, and the Girgashite, ¹⁷ And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, ¹⁸ And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. ¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gazzah; as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboyim, even unto Lesha. ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, in their nations. ²¹ But unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, were children born. ²² The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram. ²³ And the children of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. ²⁴ And Arpachshad begat Shelach; and Shelach begat Eber. ²⁵ And unto Eber were born two sons; the name of one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. ²⁶ And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerach, ²⁷ And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, ²⁸ And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba. ²⁹ And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. ³⁰ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, the mount of the east. ³¹ These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. ³² These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations; and from these were the nations separated on the earth after the flood. 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.