The Holy Ivri Heritage Bible

1All the Aretz had one safah [lip, speech] and one lashon [language]. 2As they journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they settled there. 3They said to one another: “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick for stone, and chemar [bitumen] for mortar. 4They said: “Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the shamayim [heavens], and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of all the Aretz.” 5Yahuah came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of Adam had built. 6Yahuah said: “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one safah. This is only the beginning of what they will do, and now nothing they plan will be withheld from them. 7Come, let Us go down and confuse their safah, so that they will not understand one another’s lashon.” 8So Yahuah scattered them from there over the face of all the Aretz, and they stopped building the city. 9Therefore its name was called Bavel [Confusion], because there Yahuah confused the safah of all the Aretz, and from there Yahuah scattered them over the face of all the Aretz. 10These are the toledot [generations] of Shem. Shem was 100 years old and yalad [fathered] Arpakhshad two years after the mabul [flood]. 11After he yalad [fathered] Arpakhshad, Shem lived 500 years and yalad sons and daughters. 12Arpakhshad lived 135 years and yalad [fathered] Kenan. 13After he yalad Kenan, Arpakhshad lived 400 years and fathered sons and daughters. 14Kenan lived 130 years and yalad Shelach. 15After he yalad Shelach, Kenan lived 330 years and yalad [fathered] sons and daughters. 16Shelach lived 130 years and Yalad [fathered] Ever [Eber]. 17After he yalad Ever, Shelach lived 330 years and yalad [fathered] sons and daughters. 18Ever lived 134 years and yalad Peleg. 19After he yalad [fathered] Peleg, Ever lived 270 years and yalad sons and daughters. 20Peleg lived 130 years and yalad Re’u. 21After he yalad [fathered] Re’u, Peleg lived 209 years and yalad sons and daughters. 22Re’u lived 132 years and yalad Serug. 23After he yalad [fathered] Serug, Re’u lived 207 years and yalad sons and daughters. 24Serug lived 130 years and yalad [fathered] Nahor. 25After he yalad Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and yalad sons and daughters. 26Nahor lived 179 years and yalad [fathered] Terach. 27These are the toledot of Terach: Terach yalad [fathered]Avram [Abram], Nahor, and Haran. Haran yalad [fathered] Lot. 28Haran died before his father Terach in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim [Ur of the Chaldees]. 29Avram and Nahor took wives: the name of Avram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah, daughter of Haran, father of Milkah and Yiskah. 30Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31Terach took Avram his son, Lot son of Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Avram his son, and they went forth together from Ur Kasdim to go to the land of Kena’an. They came to Charan [Haran] and settled there. 32The days of Terach were 205 years, and Terach died in Charan.