Two years after the flood, when Shem was a hundred years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. Shem lived five hundred more years after that and had many other sons and daughters.
Arphaxad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah. After that, he lived another four hundred and three years and had more children.
Shelah lived thirty years and fathered Eber, then lived four hundred and three more years with more sons and daughters.
Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg. He lived another four hundred and thirty years afterward.
Peleg became the father of Reu at thirty, then lived two hundred and nine years more.
Reu had Serug when he was thirty-two, and then lived two hundred and seven more years.
Serug became the father of Nahor at thirty, and lived another two hundred years.
Nahor had Terah at twenty-nine, and lived a hundred and nineteen years after that.
When Terah turned seventy, he became the father of three sons: Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Now this is how Terah's story unfolds. He was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran himself was the father of Lot. But Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, his homeland, while his father Terah was still alive.
Abram and Nahor both married. Abram's wife was named Sarai, and Nahor's wife was Milcah—the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren. She could not have children.
Then Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and Sarai, Abram's wife. Together, they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans, heading toward the land of Canaan. But when they reached a place called Haran, they settled there.
Terah lived for two hundred and five years, and it was in Haran that his journey ended.