1 Toute la terre avait une seule langue et les mêmes mots.

2 Comme ils étaient partis de l'orient, ils trouvèrent une plaine au pays de Schinear, et ils y habitèrent.

3 Ils se dirent l'un à l'autre: Allons! faisons des briques, et cuisons-les au feu. Et la brique leur servit de pierre, et le bitume leur servit de ciment.

4 Ils dirent encore: Allons! bâtissons-nous une ville et une tour dont le sommet touche au ciel, et faisons-nous un nom, afin que nous ne soyons pas dispersés sur la face de toute la terre.

5 L'Eternel descendit pour voir la ville et la tour que bâtissaient les fils des hommes.

6 Et l'Eternel dit: Voici, ils forment un seul peuple et ont tous une même langue, et c'est là ce qu'ils ont entrepris; maintenant rien ne les empêcherait de faire tout ce qu'ils auraient projeté.

7 Allons! descendons, et là confondons leur langage, afin qu'ils n'entendent plus la langue, les uns des autres.

8 Et l'Eternel les dispersa loin de là sur la face de toute la terre; et ils cessèrent de bâtir la ville.

9 C'est pourquoi on l'appela du nom de Babel, car c'est là que l'Eternel confondit le langage de toute la terre, et c'est de là que l'Eternel les dispersa sur la face de toute la terre.

10 Voici la postérité de Sem. Sem, âgé de cent ans, engendra Arpacschad, deux ans après le déluge.

11 Sem vécut, après la naissance d'Arpacschad, cinq cents ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

12 Arpacschad, âgé de trente-cinq ans, engendra Schélach.

13 Arpacschad vécut, après la naissance de Schélach, quatre cent trois ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

14 Schélach, âgé de trente ans, engendra Héber.

15 Schélach vécut, après la naissance d'Héber, quatre cent trois ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

16 Héber, âgé de trente-quatre ans, engendra Péleg.

17 Héber vécut, après la naissance de Péleg, quatre cent trente ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

18 Péleg, âgé de trente ans, engendra Rehu.

19 Péleg vécut, après la naissance de Rehu, deux cent neuf ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

20 Rehu, âgé de trente-deux ans, engendra Serug.

21 Rehu vécut, après la naissance de Serug, deux cent sept ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

22 Serug, âgé de trente ans, engendra Nachor.

23 Serug vécut, après la naissance de Nachor, deux cents ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

24 Nachor, âgé de vingt-neuf ans, engendra Térach.

25 Nachor vécut, après la naissance de Térach, cent dix-neuf ans; et il engendra des fils et des filles.

26 Térach, âgé de soixante-dix ans, engendra Abram, Nachor et Haran.

27 Voici la postérité de Térach. Térach engendra Abram, Nachor et Haran. -Haran engendra Lot.

28 Et Haran mourut en présence de Térach, son père, au pays de sa naissance, à Ur en Chaldée. -

29 Abram et Nachor prirent des femmes: le nom de la femme d'Abram était Saraï, et le nom de la femme de Nachor était Milca, fille d'Haran, père de Milca et père de Jisca.

30 Saraï était stérile: elle n'avait point d'enfants.

31 Térach prit Abram, son fils, et Lot, fils d'Haran, fils de son fils, et Saraï, sa belle-fille, femme d'Abram, son fils. Ils sortirent ensemble d'Ur en Chaldée, pour aller au pays de Canaan. Ils vinrent jusqu'à Charan, et ils y habitèrent.

32 Les jours de Térach furent de deux cent cinq ans; et Térach mourut à Charan.

1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 2 As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. 3 They said to one another, "Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 4 They said, "Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. 7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech." 8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city. 9 Therefore its name 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.

10 This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah. 13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber. 15 Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg. 17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu. 19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug. 21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor. 23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah. 25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. 28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive. 29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. 30 Sarai was barren. She had no child. 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. 32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.