Kamtawngnae 11
1 Hatnavah lawk phun touh hoi lawk pan e buet touh dueng doeh kaawm.
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2 Kanîtholah hoi kahlawng a cei awh teh, Shinar ram dawk tanghling a hmu awh teh, haw vah kho hmuen a thawng awh.
As they travelled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, 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.
They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
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.
They 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.”
5 Hatei taminaw e capanaw ni a thawng awh e khopui hoi imrasang khet hanlah BAWIPA teh a kum.
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children 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.
The 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.
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, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
8 Hottelah BAWIPA ni ahnimanaw teh talai van a kampek sak awh teh khopui kangdout sak thai awh hoeh toe.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
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.
Therefore 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.
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.
This 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.
11 Arphaxad a khe hnukkhu, Shem teh kum 500 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
12 Arphaxad teh kum 35 touh a pha nah capa Shelah a khe.
Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
13 Shelah a khe hnukkhu Arphaxad teh kum 403 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
14 Shelah teh kum 30 touh a pha nah Eber a khe.
Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.
15 Eber a khe hnukkhu Shelah teh kum 403 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
16 Eber teh kum 34 touh a pha nah capa Peleg a sak.
Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
17 Peleg a khe hnukkhu Eber teh kum 430 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
18 Peleg teh kum 30 touh a pha navah Reu a sak.
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
19 Reu a khe hnukkhu Peleg teh kum 209 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
20 Reu teh kum 32 touh a pha navah Serug a sak.
Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
21 Serug a khe hnukkhu Reu teh kum 207 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
22 Serug teh kum 30 touh a pha nah Nahor a khe.
Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
23 Nahor a khe hnukkhu Serug teh kum 200 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
24 Nahor teh kum 29 touh a pha navah Terah a sak.
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
25 Terah a khe hnukkhu Nahor teh kum 119 touh a hring teh ca tongpanaw hoi napuinaw bout a sak.
Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
26 Terah teh kum 70 touh a pha nah Abram, Nahor, hoi Haran a sak.
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Terah e casaknaw teh, Terah ni Abram, Nahor hoi Haran a sak. Haran ni Lot a sak.
Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.
28 Haran teh a na pa Terah hmaitung, a khenae hmuen Khaldean taminaw a onae Ur kho dawk a due.
Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
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.
Abram 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.
30 Hatei Sarai teh carôe dawkvah ca tawn hoeh.
Sarai was barren. She had no child.
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.
Terah 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.
32 Terah teh kum 205 touh a pha navah, Terah teh Haran kho dawk a due.
The days of Terah were two hundred and five years. Terah died in Haran.
