I. The Story of the Nations

The Garden of Eden. ⁴ This is the story^[a] of the heavens and the earth at their creation. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens— ⁵ there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the Lord God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man^[b] to till the ground, ⁶ but a stream^[c] was welling up out of the earth and watering all the surface of the ground— ⁷ then the Lord God formed the man^[d] out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.^(A)

⁸ The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,^[e] and placed there the man whom he had formed.^{(B) 9 [f]}Out of the ground the Lord God made grow every tree that was delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.^(C)

¹⁰ A river rises in Eden^[g] to water the garden; beyond there it divides and becomes four branches. ¹¹ The name of the first is the Pishon; it is the one that winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. ¹² The gold of that land is good; bdellium and lapis lazuli are also there. ¹³ The name of the second river is the Gihon; it is the one that winds all through the land of Cush.^{(D) 14} The name of the third river is the Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵ The Lord God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.^{(E) 16} The Lord God gave the man this order: You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden^{(F) 17} except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; when you eat from it you shall die.^[h](G)

¹⁸ The Lord God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suited to him.^{[i](H) 19} So the Lord God formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each living creature was then its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the tame animals, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be a helper suited to the man.

²¹ So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.^{(I) 22} The Lord God then built the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman. When he brought her to the man, ²³ the man said:

^24 (J)That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.^[k]

²⁵ The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame.^[l]

Chapter 3

Expulsion from Eden. ¹ Now the snake was the most cunning^[m] of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He asked the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat from any of the trees in the garden’?” ² The woman answered the snake: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; ^3 (K)it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, or else you will die.’” ⁴ But the snake said to the woman: “You certainly will not die!^{(L) 5} God knows well that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, who know^[n] good and evil.” ⁶ The woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and the tree was desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.^{(M) 7} Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

⁸ When they heard the sound of the Lord God walking about in the garden at the breezy time of the day,^[o] the man and his wife hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.^{(N) 9} The Lord God then called to the man and asked him: Where are you? ¹⁰ He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid.” ¹¹ Then God asked: Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat? ¹² The man replied, “The woman whom you put here with me—she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it.” ¹³ The Lord God then asked the woman: What is this you have done? The woman answered, “The snake tricked me, so I ate it.”^(O)

¹⁴ Then the Lord God said to the snake:

¹⁶ To the woman he said:

¹⁷ To the man he said: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, You shall not eat from it,

²⁰ The man gave his wife the name “Eve,” because she was the mother of all the living.^[t]

²¹ The Lord God made for the man and his wife garments of skin, with which he clothed them. ²² Then the Lord God said: See! The man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil! Now, what if he also reaches out his hand to take fruit from the tree of life, and eats of it and lives forever?^{(T) 23} The Lord God therefore banished him from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he had been taken. ²⁴ He expelled the man, stationing the cherubim and the fiery revolving sword east of the garden of Eden, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Chapter 4

Cain and Abel. ¹ The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, saying, “I have produced a male child with the help of the Lord.”^{[u] 2} Next she gave birth to his brother Abel. Abel became a herder of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the ground.^{[v] 3} In the course of time Cain brought an offering to the Lord from the fruit of the ground, ⁴ while Abel, for his part, brought the fatty portion^[w] of the firstlings of his flock.^(U) The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, ⁵ but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry and dejected. ⁶ Then the Lord said to Cain: Why are you angry? Why are you dejected? ⁷ If you act rightly, you will be accepted;^[x] but if not, sin lies in wait at the door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.^(V)

⁸ Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out in the field.”^[y] When they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.^{(W) 9} Then the Lord asked Cain, Where is your brother Abel? He answered, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” ¹⁰ God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground! ¹¹ Now you are banned from the ground^[z] that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.^{(X) 12} If you till the ground, it shall no longer give you its produce. You shall become a constant wanderer on the earth. ¹³ Cain said to the Lord: “My punishment is too great to bear. ¹⁴ Look, you have now banished me from the ground. I must avoid you and be a constant wanderer on the earth. Anyone may kill me at sight.” ¹⁵ Not so! the Lord said to him. If anyone kills Cain, Cain shall be avenged seven times. So the Lord put a mark^[aa] on Cain, so that no one would kill him at sight. ¹⁶ Cain then left the Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod,^[ab] east of Eden.

Descendants of Cain and Seth. ^17 [ac]Cain had intercourse with his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain also became the founder of a city, which he named after his son Enoch. ¹⁸ To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael; Mehujael became the father of Methusael, and Methusael became the father of Lamech. ¹⁹ Lamech took two wives; the name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second Zillah. ²⁰ Adah gave birth to Jabal, who became the ancestor of those who dwell in tents and keep livestock. ²¹ His brother’s name was Jubal, who became the ancestor of all who play the lyre and the reed pipe. ²² Zillah, on her part, gave birth to Tubalcain, the ancestor of all who forge instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubalcain was Naamah. ^23 [ad]Lamech said to his wives:

^25 [ae]Adam again had intercourse with his wife, and she gave birth to a son whom she called Seth. “God has granted me another offspring in place of Abel,” she said, “because Cain killed him.” ²⁶ To Seth, in turn, a son was born, and he named him Enosh.

At that time people began to invoke the Lord by name.^(Y)

Chapter 5

Generations: Adam to Noah.^{[af] 1 (Z)}This is the record of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in the likeness of God; ² he created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and named them humankind.

^3 (AA)Adam was one hundred and thirty years old when he begot a son in his likeness, after his image; and he named him Seth.^{(AB) 4} Adam lived eight hundred years after he begot Seth, and he had other sons and daughters. ⁵ The whole lifetime of Adam was nine hundred and thirty years; then he died.

⁶ When Seth was one hundred and five years old, he begot Enosh. ⁷ Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he begot Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters. ⁸ The whole lifetime of Seth was nine hundred and twelve years; then he died.

⁹ When Enosh was ninety years old, he begot Kenan. ¹⁰ Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he begot Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters. ¹¹ The whole lifetime of Enosh was nine hundred and five years; then he died.

¹² When Kenan was seventy years old, he begot Mahalalel. ¹³ Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he begot Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters. ¹⁴ The whole lifetime of Kenan was nine hundred and ten years; then he died.

¹⁵ When Mahalalel was sixty-five years old, he begot Jared. ¹⁶ Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he begot Jared, and he had other sons and daughters. ¹⁷ The whole lifetime of Mahalalel was eight hundred and ninety-five years; then he died.

¹⁸ When Jared was one hundred and sixty-two years old, he begot Enoch. ¹⁹ Jared lived eight hundred years after he begot Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters. ²⁰ The whole lifetime of Jared was nine hundred and sixty-two years; then he died.

²¹ When Enoch was sixty-five years old, he begot Methuselah. ²² Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah for three hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters. ²³ The whole lifetime of Enoch was three hundred and sixty-five years. ²⁴ Enoch walked with God,^[ag] and he was no longer here, for God took him.^(AC)

²⁵ When Methuselah was one hundred and eighty-seven years old, he begot Lamech. ²⁶ Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he begot Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters. ²⁷ The whole lifetime of Methuselah was nine hundred and sixty-nine years; then he died.

²⁸ When Lamech was one hundred and eighty-two years old, he begot a son ^29 (AD)and named him Noah, saying, “This one shall bring us relief from our work and the toil of our hands, out of the very ground that the Lord has put under a curse.”^{[ah] 30} Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he begot Noah, and he had other sons and daughters. ³¹ The whole lifetime of Lamech was seven hundred and seventy-seven years; then he died.

³² When Noah was five hundred years old, he begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.^[ai](AE)

Chapter 6

Origin of the Nephilim.^{[aj] 1} When human beings began to grow numerous on the earth and daughters were born to them, ² the sons of God^[ak] saw how beautiful the daughters of human beings were, and so they took for their wives whomever they pleased.^{(AF) 3} Then the Lord said: My spirit shall not remain in human beings forever, because they are only flesh. Their days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years.

⁴ The Nephilim appeared on earth in those days, as well as later,^[al] after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of human beings, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown.^(AG)

Warning of the Flood. ^5 [am]When the Lord saw how great the wickedness of human beings was on earth, and how every desire that their heart conceived was always nothing but evil,^{(AH) 6} the Lord regretted making human beings on the earth, and his heart was grieved.^[an]

⁷ So the Lord said: I will wipe out from the earth the human beings I have created, and not only the human beings, but also the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air, for I regret that I made them.^{[ao] 8} But Noah found favor with the Lord.

⁹ These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man and blameless in his generation;^(AI) Noah walked with God. ¹⁰ Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ But the earth was corrupt^[ap] in the view of God and full of lawlessness.^{(AJ) 12} When God saw how corrupt the earth had become, since all mortals had corrupted their ways on earth,^{(AK) 13} God said to Noah: I see that the end of all mortals has come, for the earth is full of lawlessness because of them. So I am going to destroy them with the earth.^(AL)

Preparation for the Flood. ¹⁴ Make yourself an ark of gopherwood,^[aq] equip the ark with various compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch. ¹⁵ This is how you shall build it: the length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.^{[ar] 16} Make an opening for daylight^[as] and finish the ark a cubit above it. Put the ark’s entrance on its side; you will make it with bottom, second and third decks. ¹⁷ I, on my part, am about to bring the flood waters on the earth, to destroy all creatures under the sky in which there is the breath of life; everything on earth shall perish.^{(AM) 18} I will establish my covenant with you. You shall go into the ark, you and your sons, your wife and your sons’ wives with you.^{(AN) 19} Of all living creatures you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, one male and one female,^[at] to keep them alive along with you. ²⁰ Of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal, and of every kind of thing that crawls on the ground, two of each will come to you, that you may keep them alive. ²¹ Moreover, you are to provide yourself with all the food that is to be eaten, and store it away, that it may serve as provisions for you and for them. ²² Noah complied; he did just as God had commanded him.^[au]

Chapter 7

¹ Then the Lord said to Noah: Go into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone in this generation have I found to be righteous before me.^{(AO) 2} Of every clean animal, take with you seven pairs, a male and its mate; and of the unclean animals, one pair, a male and its mate; ³ likewise, of every bird of the air, seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep their progeny alive over all the earth. ⁴ For seven days from now I will bring rain down on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and so I will wipe out from the face of the earth every being that I have made.^{(AP) 5} Noah complied, just as the Lord had commanded.

The Great Flood. ⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth. ⁷ Together with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, Noah went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.^{(AQ) 8} Of the clean animals and the unclean, of the birds, and of everything that crawls on the ground, ⁹ two by two, male and female came to Noah into the ark, just as God had commanded him.^{(AR) 10} When the seven days were over, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month: on that day

¹² For forty days and forty nights heavy rain poured down on the earth.

¹³ On the very same day, Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of Noah’s sons had entered the ark, ¹⁴ together with every kind of wild animal, every kind of tame animal, every kind of crawling thing that crawls on the earth, and every kind of bird. ¹⁵ Pairs of all creatures in which there was the breath of life came to Noah into the ark. ¹⁶ Those that entered were male and female; of all creatures they came, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

¹⁷ The flood continued upon the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark, so that it rose above the earth. ¹⁸ The waters swelled and increased greatly on the earth, but the ark floated on the surface of the waters. ¹⁹ Higher and higher on the earth the waters swelled, until all the highest mountains under the heavens were submerged. ²⁰ The waters swelled fifteen cubits higher than the submerged mountains. ²¹ All creatures that moved on earth perished: birds, tame animals, wild animals, and all that teemed on the earth, as well as all humankind.^{(AS) 22} Everything on dry land with the breath of life in its nostrils died. ²³ The Lord wiped out every being on earth: human beings and animals, the crawling things and the birds of the air; all were wiped out from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.

²⁴ And when the waters had swelled on the earth for one hundred and fifty days,

Chapter 8

¹ God remembered Noah and all the animals, wild and tame, that were with him in the ark. So God made a wind sweep over the earth, and the waters began to subside. ² The fountains of the abyss and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the downpour from the sky was held back. ³ Gradually the waters receded from the earth. At the end of one hundred and fifty days, the waters had so diminished ⁴ that, in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.^{[aw] 5} The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.

⁶ At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch of the ark that he had made, ^7 [ax]and he released a raven. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth. ⁸ Then he released a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth. ⁹ But the dove could find no place to perch, and it returned to him in the ark, for there was water over all the earth. Putting out his hand, he caught the dove and drew it back to him inside the ark. ¹⁰ He waited yet seven days more and again released the dove from the ark. ¹¹ In the evening the dove came back to him, and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had diminished on the earth. ¹² He waited yet another seven days and then released the dove; but this time it did not come back.

^13 [ay]In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water began to dry up on the earth. Noah then removed the covering of the ark and saw that the surface of the ground had dried. ¹⁴ In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

¹⁵ Then God said to Noah: ¹⁶ Go out of the ark, together with your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives. ¹⁷ Bring out with you every living thing that is with you—all creatures, be they birds or animals or crawling things that crawl on the earth—and let them abound on the earth, and be fertile and multiply on it.^{(AT) 18} So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives; ¹⁹ and all the animals, all the birds, and all the crawling creatures that crawl on the earth went out of the ark by families.

²⁰ Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and choosing from every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹ When the Lord smelled the sweet odor, the Lord said to himself: Never again will I curse the ground because of human beings, since the desires of the human heart are evil from youth; nor will I ever again strike down every living being, as I have done.^(AU)

Chapter 9

Covenant with Noah. ^1 [az]God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth.^{(AW) 2 [ba]}Fear and dread of you shall come upon all the animals of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon all the creatures that move about on the ground and all the fishes of the sea; into your power they are delivered. ^3 (AX)Any living creature that moves about shall be yours to eat; I give them all to you as I did the green plants. ^4 (AY)Only meat with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat.^{[bb] 5} Indeed for your own lifeblood I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from a human being, each one for the blood of another, I will demand an accounting for human life.^(AZ)

⁷ Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it.^(BB)

^8 [bd]God said to Noah and to his sons with him: ⁹ See, I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you^{(BC) 10} and with every living creature that was with you: the birds, the tame animals, and all the wild animals that were with you—all that came out of the ark. ¹¹ I will establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all creatures be destroyed by the waters of a flood; there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth.^{(BD) 12} God said: This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: ^13 (BE)I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ When I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow appears in the clouds, ¹⁵ I will remember my covenant between me and you and every living creature—every mortal being—so that the waters will never again become a flood to destroy every mortal being.^{(BF) 16} When the bow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature—every mortal being that is on earth. ¹⁷ God told Noah: This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and every mortal being that is on earth.

Noah and His Sons. ^18 [be]The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.^{(BG) 19} These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

²⁰ Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. ²¹ He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and lay naked inside his tent.^{(BH) 22} Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness, and he told his two brothers outside. ²³ Shem and Japheth, however, took a robe, and holding it on their shoulders, they walked backward and covered their father’s nakedness; since their faces were turned the other way, they did not see their father’s nakedness. ²⁴ When Noah woke up from his wine and learned what his youngest son had done to him, ²⁵ he said:

²⁶ He also said:

²⁸ Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. ²⁹ The whole lifetime of Noah was nine hundred and fifty years; then he died.

Chapter 10

Table of the Nations.^{[bg] 1} These are the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, to whom children were born after the flood.

^2 (BJ)The descendants of Japheth: Gomer,^[bh] Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras.^{(BK) 3} The descendants of Gomer: Ashkenaz,^[bi] Diphath and Togarmah. ⁴ The descendants of Javan: Elishah,^[bj] Tarshish, the Kittim and the Rodanim. ⁵ From these branched out the maritime nations.

These are the descendants of Japheth by their lands, each with its own language, according to their clans, by their nations.

⁶ The descendants of Ham: Cush,^[bk] Mizraim, Put and Canaan. ⁷ The descendants of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ Cush^[bl] became the father of Nimrod, who was the first to become a mighty warrior on earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter in the eyes of the Lord; hence the saying, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter in the eyes of the Lord.” ¹⁰ His kingdom originated in Babylon, Erech and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar.^{[bm] 11} From that land he went forth to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir^[bn] and Calah, ¹² as well as Resen, between Nineveh and Calah,^[bo] the latter being the principal city.

^13 (BL)Mizraim became the father of the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim, ¹⁴ the Pathrusim,^[bp] the Casluhim, and the Caphtorim from whom the Philistines came.

¹⁵ Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and of Heth;^{[bq] 16} also of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, ¹⁷ the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, ¹⁸ the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward, the clans of the Canaanites spread out, ¹⁹ so that the Canaanite borders extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar, near Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, near Lasha.

²⁰ These are the descendants of Ham, according to their clans, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

²¹ To Shem also, Japheth’s oldest brother and the ancestor of all the children of Eber,^[br] children were born. ^22 (BM)The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram. ²³ The descendants of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash.

²⁴ Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber. ²⁵ To Eber two sons were born: the name of the first was Peleg, for in his time the world was divided;^[bs] and the name of his brother was Joktan.

²⁶ Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were descendants of Joktan. ³⁰ Their settlements extended all the way from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.

³¹ These are the descendants of Shem, according to their clans, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

³² These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their origins and by their nations. From these the nations of the earth branched out after the flood.

Chapter 11

Tower of Babel.^{[bt] 1} The whole world had the same language and the same words. ² When they were migrating from the east, they came to a valley in the land of Shinar^[bu] and settled there. ³ They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar. ⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky,^[bv] and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”

⁵ The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built. ⁶ Then the Lord said: If now, while they are one people and all have the same language, they have started to do this, nothing they presume to do will be out of their reach. ⁷ Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another. ⁸ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. ⁹ That is why it was called Babel,^[bw] because there the Lord confused the speech of all the world. From there the Lord scattered them over all the earth.

Descendants from Shem to Abraham.^{[bx] 10 (BN)}These are the descendants of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he begot Arpachshad, two years after the flood. ¹¹ Shem lived five hundred years after he begot Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters. ¹² When Arpachshad was thirty-five years old, he begot Shelah.^{[by] 13} Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he begot Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.

¹⁴ When Shelah was thirty years old, he begot Eber. ¹⁵ Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he begot Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.

¹⁶ When Eber^[bz] was thirty-four years old, he begot Peleg. ¹⁷ Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he begot Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters.

¹⁸ When Peleg was thirty years old, he begot Reu. ¹⁹ Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he begot Reu, and he had other sons and daughters.

²⁰ When Reu was thirty-two years old, he begot Serug. ²¹ Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he begot Serug, and he had other sons and daughters.

²² When Serug was thirty years old, he begot Nahor. ²³ Serug lived two hundred years after he begot Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters.

²⁴ When Nahor was twenty-nine years old, he begot Terah. ²⁵ Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he begot Terah, and he had other sons and daughters.

²⁶ When Terah was seventy years old, he begot Abram,^[ca] Nahor and Haran.^(BO)