6Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
7Come, let`s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another`s speech."
8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
9Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
10This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11Shem lived after he became the father of Arpachshad five hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
12Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah.
