Genesis

巴别塔

1那时，天下人的口音、言语都是一样。

2他们往东边迁移的时候，在示拿地遇见一片平原，就住在那里。

3他们彼此商量说：「来吧！我们要做砖，把砖烧透了。」他们就拿砖当石头，又拿石漆当灰泥。

4他们说：「来吧！我们要建造一座城和一座塔，塔顶通天，为要传扬我们的名，免得我们分散在全地上。」

5耶和华降临，要看看世人所建造的城和塔。

6耶和华说：「看哪，他们成为一样的人民，都是一样的言语，如今既做起这事来，以后他们所要做的事就没有不成就的了。

7我们下去，在那里变乱他们的口音，使他们的言语彼此不通。」

8于是耶和华使他们从那里分散在全地上；他们就停工，不造那城了。

9因为耶和华在那里变乱天下人的言语，使众人分散在全地上，所以那城名叫巴别。

闪的后代

10闪的后代记在下面。洪水以后二年，闪一百岁生了亚法撒。

11闪生亚法撒之后又活了五百年，并且生儿养女。

12亚法撒活到三十五岁，生了沙拉。

13亚法撒生沙拉之后又活了四百零三年，并且生儿养女。

14沙拉活到三十岁，生了希伯。

15沙拉生希伯之后又活了四百零三年，并且生儿养女。

16希伯活到三十四岁，生了法勒。

17希伯生法勒之后又活了四百三十年，并且生儿养女。

18法勒活到三十岁，生了拉吴。

19法勒生拉吴之后又活了二百零九年，并且生儿养女。

20拉吴活到三十二岁，生了西鹿。

21拉吴生西鹿之后又活了二百零七年，并且生儿养女。

22西鹿活到三十岁，生了拿鹤。

23西鹿生拿鹤之后又活了二百年，并且生儿养女。

24拿鹤活到二十九岁，生了他拉。

25拿鹤生他拉之后又活了一百一十九年，并且生儿养女。

26他拉活到七十岁，生了亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰。

他拉的后代

27他拉的后代记在下面。他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰；哈兰生罗得。

28哈兰死在他的本地迦勒底的吾珥，在他父亲他拉之先。

29亚伯兰、拿鹤各娶了妻：亚伯兰的妻子名叫撒莱；拿鹤的妻子名叫密迦，是哈兰的女儿；哈兰是密迦和亦迦的父亲。

30撒莱不生育，没有孩子。

31他拉带着他儿子亚伯兰和他孙子哈兰的儿子罗得，并他儿妇亚伯兰的妻子撒莱，出了迦勒底的吾珥，要往迦南地去；他们走到哈兰，就住在那里。

32他拉共活了二百零五岁，就死在哈兰。

The Tower of Babel

1Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

2And as people journeyed eastward,they found a plain in the land of Shinarand settled there.

3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

4“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

5Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

6And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

7Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

8So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

9That is why it is called Babel,for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

Genealogy from Shem to Abram

10This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

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

12When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.

13And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

14When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.

15And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

16When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.

17And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

18When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.

19And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

20When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.

21And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

22When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.

23And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

24When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

25And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

26When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Terah’s Descendants

27This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

28During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

29And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

30But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

31And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

32Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.