3-4. they said:Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world.
5. But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,
6. he said:These people are working together because they all speak the same language. This is just the beginning. Soon they will be able to do anything they want.
7. Come on! Let's go down and confuse them by making them speak different languages—then they won't be able to understand each other.
26-28. After Terah was seventy years old, he had three sons: Abram, Nahor, and Haran, who became the father of Lot. Terah's sons were born in the city of Ur in Chaldea, and Haran died there before the death of his father. The following is the story of Terah's descendants.
29-30. Abram married Sarai, but she was not able to have any children. And Nahor married Milcah, who was the daughter of Haran and the sister of Iscah.
31. Terah decided to move from Ur to the land of Canaan. He took along Abram and Sarai and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran. But when they came to the city of Haran, they decided to settle there instead.
32. Terah lived to be two hundred and five years old and died in Haran.