1And Haran, the son of Terah, Abram's oldest brother, took a wife in those

2Haran was thirty-nine years old when he took her; and the wife of Haran

3And she conceived again and bare a daughter, and she called her name Milca;

4Haran was forty-two years old when he begat Sarai, which was in the tenth

5And when Abram came out from the cave, he went to Noah and his son Shem,

6And Abram was in Noah's house thirty-nine years, and Abram knew the Lord

7And the king and all his servants, and Terah with all his household were

8And Terah had twelve gods of large size, made of wood and stone, after the

9And all that generation were wicked in the sight of the Lord, and they thus

10And there was not a man found in those days in the whole earth, who knew

11And Abram the son of Terah was waxing great in those days in the house of

12And the Lord gave Abram an understanding heart, and he knew all the works

13And Abram saw the sun shining upon the earth, and Abram said unto himself

14And Abram served the sun in that day and he prayed to him, and when

15And Abram still continued to speak within himself, Who is he who made the

16And night darkened over him, and he lifted up his eyes toward the west,

17And Abram saw the stars and moon before him, and he said, Surely this is

18And in the morning when it was light and the sun shone upon the earth as

19And Abram said unto himself Surely these are not gods that made the earth

20And king Nimrod reigned securely, and all the earth was under his control,

21And all the princes of Nimrod and his great men took counsel together;

22And they all went before the king, and they told the king these words, and

23And all the families assembled consisting of about six hundred thousand

24And they began to make bricks and burn fires to build the city and the

25And the building of the tower was unto them a transgression and a sin, and

26And all these people and all the families divided themselves in three

27And when they were building they built themselves a great city and a very

28And behold these ascended and others descended the whole day; and if a

29And the Lord knew their thoughts, and it came to pass when they were

30For this was from the Lord in order to cause them to err, and in order to

31And they built the tower and the city, and they did this thing daily until

32And God said to the seventy angels who stood foremost before him, to those

33And from that day following, they forgot each man his neighbor's tongue,

34And they did so many days, and they killed many of them in this manner.

35And the Lord smote the three divisions that were there, and he punished

36And those who were left amongst them, when they knew and understood the

37And they ceased building the city and the tower; therefore he called that

38And as to the tower which the sons of men built, the earth opened its

39And many of the sons of men died in that tower, a people without number.

Chapter 9

When Ten Years Old, Abram goes to Noah and Shem, Remains with them