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。

1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

2As they traveled east,they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

3They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

4They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

5The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

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

8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

9Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

10This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

11Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

12Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

13Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

14Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.

15Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

16Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

17Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

18Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.

19Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

20Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

21Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

22Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.

23Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

24Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

25Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

28Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.

29Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.

30Sarai was barren. She had no child.

31Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

32The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.