Genesis 11:5-11

5But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” 8So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

9That is why it was called Babel That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused. —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

From Shem to Abram 10This is the account of Shem’s family line. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father Father may mean ancestor; also in verses 11-25. of Arphaxad.

11And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.