5And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
6And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.
7Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
8So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.
9So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;
11And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
