"1":"Now {at first,} all {the people on} the earth spoke the same language, so that everyone understood each other. ",
"2":"As time passed, they moved from the eastern {regions} and {eventually} came to a wide, flat valley in the region of Shinar and stayed there.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
"3":"Then they urged each other, “Come on, let us {work together and} make bricks {from clay} and put them in fire to make them hard.” They used bricks {to build with} instead of stone, and they used tar {between the bricks} instead of mortar. ",
"4":"Then they urged {each other}, “Come on, we should {work together and} build a city for us {to live in} that has a {very} tall building that reaches high into the sky. {That way} we will become famous, and we will not separate from each other {and live} all over the earth.”\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
"5":"But {one day} Yahweh came down {from heaven} and looked at the city and the {very} tall building that the people were building. ",
"6":"Then he said, “Look, they are one people {group}, and they all speak the same language. This {is} {only} the beginning of what they can do {together}. Soon they will be able to do anything they plan to do. ",
"7":"{So} we must go down there {now} and mix up their language so that they are not able to understand what they say to each other.”\n\n\\ts\\* ",
"8":"In that way, Yahweh caused the people to leave from there and live in different places all over the world, so that they had to stop building the city {and the tall building}. ",
"9":"That is why the name of the city is Babel, {which means “mixed up,”} because that is where Yahweh mixed up the language that everyone on the earth shared, and {in that way} he made them spread out from there all over the earth.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\s1 The History about Abraham 11:10-25:18\n\\p\n\\s1 Shem’s Descendants down to Abram\n\\sr 11:10-26\n\\r 1 Chronicles 1:24-27\n\\p",
"10":"This is the record of Shem’s descendants:\n\\p\nTwo years after the flood {began}, when Shem was 100 years old, he had {a son named} Arpachshad. ",
"11":"After Arpachshad was born, Shem lived {another} 500 years. He {also} had {other} sons, as well as daughters.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
"26":"After Terah was seventy years old, he had {sons whose names were} Abram, Nahor, and Haran.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\s1 Terah’s Children, including Abram\n\\sr 11:27-32\n\\p",
"29":"Meanwhile Abram and Nahor each married a wife. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was Milcah. Milcah and {her sister} Iscah were the daughters of {Nahor’s brother} Haran. ",
"30":"But Sarai was not able to become pregnant, {so} she did not have any children.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
"31":"Then {one day,} Terah gathered his son Abram and his grandson Lot, {who was} Haran’s son, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, who was Abram’s wife, and they {all} left from {the city of} Ur where the Chaldean people lived to travel to the region of Canaan. But when they arrived at {the city of} Haran, they decided to live there {instead}. ",