Holy Bible - Revised Standard Version(RSV)

11:1	Now the whole earth had one language and few words.
11:2	And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
11:3	And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
11:4	Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'
11:5	And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built.
11:6	And the LORD said, 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language;and this is only the beginning of what they will do;and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
11:7	Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'
11:8	So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
11:9	Therefore its name was called Ba'bel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth;and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
11:10	These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was a hundred years old, he became the father of Arpach'shad two years after the flood;
11:11	and Shem lived after the birth of Arpach'shad five hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:12	When Arpach'shad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah;
11:13	and Arpach'shad lived after the birth of Shelah four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:14	When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber;
11:15	and Shelah lived after the birth of Eber four hundred and three years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:16	When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg;
11:17	and Eber lived after the birth of Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:18	When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Re'u;
11:19	and Peleg lived after the birth of Re'u two hundred and nine years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:20	When Re'u had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug;
11:21	and Re'u lived after the birth of Serug two hundred and seven years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:22	When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor;
11:23	and Serug lived after the birth of Nahor two hundred years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:24	When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah;
11:25	and Nahor lived after the birth of Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and had other sons and daughters.
11:26	When Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27	Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran;and Haran was the father of Lot.
11:28	Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chalde'ans.
11:29	And Abram and Nahor took wives;the name of Abram's wife was Sar'ai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
11:30	Now Sar'ai was barren;she had no child.
11:31	Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sar'ai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chalde'ans to go into the land of Canaan;but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
11:32	The days of Terah were two hundred and five years;and Terah died in Haran.