Kamtawngnae 11
1 Hatnavah lawk phun touh hoi lawk pan e buet touh dueng doeh kaawm.
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 Kanîtholah hoi kahlawng a cei awh teh, Shinar ram dawk tanghling a hmu awh teh, haw vah kho hmuen a thawng awh.
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 Hat torei teh, buet touh hoi buet touh, tho awh amhru sak awh vaiteh kahawicalah pâeng awh sei telah a kâti awh. Hottelah talung e yueng lah amhru a hno awh teh pato nahanelah ailai a hno awh.
And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
4 Hahoi, tho awh mamouh hanelah khopui thawng awh vaiteh kalvan kadeng lah imrasang sak awh sei. Mamouh hanelah min kamsawng sak awh sei, telah hoehpawiteh talai van tangkuem koe kâkahei payon han doeh telah ati awh.
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 Hatei taminaw e capanaw ni a thawng awh e khopui hoi imrasang khet hanlah BAWIPA teh a kum.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
6 BAWIPA ni khenhaw! taminaw teh miphun buet touh lah ao awh teh lawk buet touh dueng a hno awh dawkvah, hete hno hmaloe pasuek a kamtawng awh. Sak han a ngai awh e kangangkung awm laipalah a sak awh han doeh.
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 Hatdawkvah, tho awh, kum awh sei. Ahnimanaw buet touh hoi buet touh lawk kâthai awh hoeh nahanelah, lawk alouklouk lah sak awh sei telah ati.
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
8 Hottelah BAWIPA ni ahnimanaw teh talai van a kampek sak awh teh khopui kangdout sak thai awh hoeh toe.
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9 Hatdawkvah, Babel telah min a poe. Bangkongtetpawiteh, hote hmuen koehoi BAWIPA ni lawk alouklouk lah a pan sak teh talai van koung a kampek sak.
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 Hetnaw teh Shem e ca catounnaw doeh. Shem teh kum 100 touh a pha nah, tuikamuem a tho hnukkhu kum 2 touh aloum nah capa Arphaxad 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 Arphaxad a khe hnukkhu, Shem teh kum 500 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 Arphaxad teh kum 35 touh a pha nah capa Shelah a khe.
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 Shelah a khe hnukkhu Arphaxad teh kum 403 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout 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 teh kum 30 touh a pha nah Eber a khe.
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 Eber a khe hnukkhu Shelah teh kum 403 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
16 Eber teh kum 34 touh a pha nah capa Peleg a sak.
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 Peleg a khe hnukkhu Eber teh kum 430 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
18 Peleg teh kum 30 touh a pha navah Reu a sak.
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 Reu a khe hnukkhu Peleg teh kum 209 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
20 Reu teh kum 32 touh a pha navah Serug a sak.
And Ragau lived and hundred and thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 Serug a khe hnukkhu Reu teh kum 207 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
22 Serug teh kum 30 touh a pha nah Nahor a khe.
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 Nahor a khe hnukkhu Serug teh kum 200 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24 Nahor teh kum 29 touh a pha navah Terah a sak.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 Terah a khe hnukkhu Nahor teh kum 119 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout 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 teh kum 70 touh a pha nah Abram, Nahor, hoi Haran a sak.
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 Terah e casaknaw teh, Terah ni Abram, Nahor hoi Haran a sak. Haran ni Lot a sak.
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 Haran teh a na pa Terah hmaitung, a khenae hmuen Khaldean taminaw a onae Ur kho dawk a due.
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 Hahoi, Abram hoi Nahor ni a yu a la roi. Abram e a yu min teh Sarai, Nahor e a yu min teh Haran e a canu Mikah. Haran teh Milkah hoi Iskah e a na pa lah ao.
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 Hatei Sarai teh carôe dawkvah ca tawn hoeh.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 Terah ni a capa Abram hoi a capa Haran capa Lot, a langa lah kaawm a capa Abraham e yu Sarai, a kaw teh Kanaan ram lah cei hanelah Khaldean taminaw a onae Ur kho hoi a tâcokhai, Hatei Haran kho a pha awh navah haw vah kho a sak awh.
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 teh kum 205 touh a pha navah, Terah teh Haran kho dawk a due.
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
