Genesis 11
1 And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
Nog sprak heel de aarde eenzelfde taal en dezelfde woorden.
2 And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
Toen men uit het oosten was opgetrokken, en een vlakte in het land Sjinar had gevonden, bleef men daar wonen.
3 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.
Nu zeiden ze tot elkander: Komt, laten we stenen maken, en ze hard bakken in vuur. Die tichels moesten hun tot bouwsteen dienen, de asfalt tot mortel.
4 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.
Later zeiden ze weer: Komt, laten we ons een stad bouwen met een toren, waarvan de spits tot in de hemel reikt; dan maken we ons een herkenningsteken, zodat we niet over heel de aarde worden verstrooid.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
Maar Jahweh daalde neer, om de stad en de toren eens te bezien, die de mensenkinderen bouwden.
6 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.
Want Jahweh sprak: Zie, zij vormen één volk en spreken één taal. En dit is nog maar het begin van hun doen; later zal men niets meer kunnen beletten van al wat zij van plan zijn.
7 Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
Kom, laat ons afdalen, en daar beneden hun spraak in verwarring brengen, zodat zij elkanders taal niet meer verstaan.
8 And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
Zo verstrooide Jahweh hen over de hele aarde, en staakten zij de bouw der stad.
9 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.
Daarom noemt men haar Babel, omdat Jahweh daar de spraak van de hele aarde in verwarring heeft gebracht, en omdat Jahweh hen vandaar over de hele aarde heeft verstrooid.
10 And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
Dit is de geslachtslijst van Sem. Sem was honderd jaar oud, toen hij Arpaksad verwekte, twee jaar na de zondvloed.
11 And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
En Sem leefde, nadat hij Arpaksad verwekt had, nog vijfhonderd jaar, en verwekte zonen en dochters.
12 And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
Arpaksad was vijf en dertig jaar oud, toen hij Sála verwekte.
13 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.
Arpaksad leefde, nadat hij Sála verwekt had, nog vierhonderd drie jaar, en verwekte zonen en dochters.
14 And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
Sála was dertig jaar oud, toen hij Eber verwekte.
15 And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
En Sála leefde, nadat hij Eber verwekt had, nog vierhonderd drie jaar, en verwekte zonen en dochters.
16 And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
Eber was vier en dertig jaar oud, toen hij Páleg verwekte.
17 And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
Eber leefde, nadat hij Páleg verwekt had, nog vierhonderd dertig jaar, en verwekte zonen en dochters.
18 And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
Páleg was dertig jaar, toen hij Ragaoe verwekte.
19 And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
En Páleg leefde, nadat hij Ragaoe verwekt had, nog tweehonderd negen jaar, en verwekte zonen en dochters.
20 And Ragau lived and hundred and thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
Ragaoe was twee en dertig jaar oud, toen hij Seroeg verwekte.
21 And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
En Ragaoe leefde, nadat hij Seroeg verwekt had, nog tweehonderd zeven jaar, en verwekte zonen en dochters.
22 And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
Seroeg was dertig jaar oud, toen hij Nachor verwekte.
23 And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
En Seroeg leefde, nadat hij Nachor verwekt had, nog tweehonderd jaar, en verwekte zonen en dochters.
24 And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
Nachor was negen en twintig jaar oud, toen hij Tara verwekte.
25 And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
En Nachor leefde, nadat hij Tara verwekt had, nog honderd negentien jaar, en verwekte zonen en dochters.
26 And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
Tara was zeventig jaar oud, toen hij Abram, Nachor en Haran verwekte.
27 And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
En dit is de geslachtslijst van Tara. Tara verwekte Abram, Nachor en Haran. Haran verwekte Lot.
28 And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
Haran stierf nog bij het leven van Tara, zijn vader, in zijn geboorteland, in Oer der Chaldeën.
29 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.
Abram en Nachor waren beiden getrouwd. De vrouw van Abram heette Sarai; de vrouw van Nachor heette Milka, en was de dochter van Haran, den vader van Milka en Jiska.
30 And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
Sarai was onvruchtbaar en had geen kinderen.
31 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.
Tara nam zijn zoon Abram en zijn kleinzoon Lot, den zoon van Haran, en zijn schoondochter Sarai, de vrouw van zijn zoon Abram, met zich mee, en voerde ze weg uit Oer der Chaldeën, om naar het land Kanaän te trekken. Maar eenmaal in Charan gekomen, bleven zij daar wonen.
32 And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
Tara werd tweehonderd vijf jaar oud, en stierf in Charan.
