< Suencuek 11 >
1 Te vaengah diklai pum ah ol pakhat neh olka thikat laom.
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 Tedae amih te khothoeng la a puen uh hatah Shinar khohmuenah kolbawn a hmuh uh tih teah te kho a sak uh.
And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
3 Te vaengah hlangloha hui taengah, “Halo, laiboeng sai uhsih lamtah hmai neh tik uh sih,” a ti uh. Te dongah lungto yueng la laiboeng te a khuehtih taplai yueng la lungpaat a khueh uh.
And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
4 Te vaengah, “Lo lah, mamih ham khopuei neh rhaltoengim khaw, a soite vaan duela sa uh sih. Te dongah mamih ham ming khueh sih, diklai pum kah mikhmuh ah vik n'taekyak uh ve,” a ti uh.
And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
5 Tedae khopuei te hmuh ham BOEIPA ha pawk vaengah hlang ca rhoek loh rhaltoengim te ana sak uh.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
6 BOEIPA loh amih he pilnam pakhat neh ol pakhat la boeih a om uh dongah saii ham a mangtaeng uh khaw saii ham a tong uh hatah amih ham lol tlaih pawt la he!
And the Lord said, Behold, [there is] one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.
7 Ceh, suntla uhsih lamtah amih ol te thoek pah sih. Te daengah ni hlang loh a hui kah hmuilai te a yaak pawt eh?,” a ti.
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.
8 Te dongah BOEIPA loh amih te diklai hman boeih ah a taekyak tih khopuei thoh ham khaw a toeng uh.
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9 He kongah BOEIPA loh diklai pum kah ol he pahoi a thoek pah tih a mingte Babylon a sui. Te lamlong tah BOEIPA loh amihte diklai hman boeih ah a taekyak.
On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
10 Hekah he Shem kah rhuirhong ni. Shem te kum yakhat lo ca coeng tih tuilii kum phoeiah Arpaxad te a sak.
And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
11 Arpaxad te a sak phoeiah Shem khaw kum ya nga hingtih caparhoek neh canurhoek te a sak.
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 Arpaxad khaw kum sawmthum neh kum nga a lo vaengah Shelah te a sak.
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 Shelah te a sak phoeiah Arpaxad khaw kum ya li neh kum thum hingtih a caparhoek neh canurhoek te a sak.
And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Canaan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
14 Shelah khaw kum sawmthum a lo vaengah Eber te a sak.
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 Eber te a sak phoeiah Shelah khaw kum ya li neh kum thum hingtih caparhoek neh canurhoek te a sak.
And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
16 Eber khaw kum sawmthum neh kum li a lo vaengah Palak te a sak.
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 Palak te a sak phoeiah Eber khaw kum ya li neh kum sawmthum hingtih caparhoek neh canurhoek te a sak.
And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
18 Palak khaw kum sawmthum a lo vaengah Reu te a sak.
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 Reu te a sak phoeiah Palak khaw kum yahnih neh kum ko hingtih caparhoek neh canurhoek te a sak.
And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
20 Reu khaw kum sawmthum neh kum nit a lo vaengah Seruk te a sak.
And Ragau lived and hundred thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 Seruk te a sak phoeiah Reu khaw kum ya neh kum rhih hingtih caparhoek neh canurhoek te a sak.
And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
22 Seruk khaw kum sawmthum a lo vaengah Nakhaw te a sak.
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 Nakhaw te a sak phoeiah Seruk khaw kum yahnih hingtih caparhoek neh canurhoek te a sak.
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24 Nakhaw khaw kum kul neh kum ko a lo vaengah Terah te a sak.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 Terah te a sak phoeiah Nakhaw khaw kum ya neh kum hlai ko hingtih caparhoek neh canurhoek te a sak.
And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
26 Terah khaw kum sawmrhih a lo vaengah Abram, Nakhaw, neh Haran te a sak.
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 Te phoeiah hekah he Terah kah rhuirhong ni. Terah loh Abram, Nakhaw neh Haran te a sak tih Haran loh Lot te a sak.
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 Tedae Haran te a napa Terah mikhmuh ah a pacaboeina khohmuen Khalden kho Ur ah duek.
And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
29 Te phoeiah Abram neh Nakhaw loh yuu a loh rhoi. Abram yuu ming tah Sarai tih Nakhaw yuu ming tah Haran canu Milkah ni. Haran tah Milkah neh Iskah kah a napa ni.
And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.
30 Te vaengah Saraite yaa la omtih camoe khueh pawh.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 Tedae Terahloha capa Abram neh a capa Haran kah capa Lot khaw, a capa Abram yuu a langa Sarai khaw, a khuen tih Khalden kho Ur lamkah Kanaan khohmuen la caeh ham tun hlah uh dae Haran te a pha uh vaengah teah te kho vik a sak uh.
And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he lived there.
32 Terah kah a tue khohnin he kum yahnih neh kum nga lo. Terah khaw Haran ah duek.
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.