And the whole earth was of one ^alanguage, and of one speech.

 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of ^aShinar; and they dwelt there.

 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and ^aslime had they for mortar.

 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a ^aname, 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 men builded.

 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their ^alanguage, that they may not understand one another's speech.

 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the ^acity.

 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there ^aconfound the ^blanguage of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord ^cscatter them ^dabroad upon the face of all the earth.

 10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

 11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: