Genesis 11
1 And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
Umhlaba wonke-ke wawulolimi lunye, lamazwi manye.
2 and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;
Kwasekusithi ekuhambeni kwabo bevela empumalanga bafica igceke elizweni leShinari, basebehlala khona.
3 and they each say to his neighbor, “Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly”: and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen has been to them for mortar.
Basebesithi ngulowo lalowo kumakhelwane wakhe: Wozani, asenzeni izitina sizitshise lokuzitshisa; lesitina saba lilitshe kubo, lengcino yaba ludaka kubo.
4 And they say, “Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
Basebesithi: Wozani, asizakheleni umuzi lomphotshongo osihloko sawo sisemazulwini, besesizenzela ibizo, hlezi sihlakazeke ebusweni bomhlaba wonke.
5 And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
INkosi yasisehla ukubona umuzi lomphotshongo abantwana babantu abawakhayo.
6 and YHWH says, “Behold, the people [is] one, and one language [is] to them all, and this it has dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.
INkosi yasisithi: Khangela, yisizwe sinye, njalo balolimi lunye bonke, njalo yikho abaqala ukukwenza; khathesi-ke akulalutho olungabehlula abamisa ukulwenza.
7 Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
Wozani, asehle, siphambanise lapho ulimi lwabo, ukuze bangezwa, ngulowo lalowo ulimi lomakhelwane wakhe.
8 And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
Ngakho iNkosi yabahlakazela ebusweni bomhlaba wonke besuka lapho; basebesima ukwakha umuzi.
9 therefore [one] has called its name Babel, for there YHWH has confused the language of all the earth, and from there YHWH has scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Ngalokho kwabizwa ibizo lawo ngokuthi iBabeli, ngoba lapho iNkosi yaphambanisa ulimi lomhlaba wonke; kusukela lapho iNkosi yabahlakaza ebusweni bomhlaba wonke.
10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.
Lezi yizizukulwana zikaShemu. UShemu wayeleminyaka elikhulu, wasezala uArpakishadi, iminyaka emibili emva kukazamcolo.
11 And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
UShemu wasephila, esezele uArpakishadi, iminyaka engamakhulu amahlanu; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
12 And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.
UArpakishadi wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu lanhlanu, wazala uShela.
13 And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
UArpakishadi wasephila, esezele uShela, iminyaka engamakhulu amane lantathu; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
14 And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
UShela wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu, wazala uEberi.
15 And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[or three hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
UShela wasephila, esezele uEberi, iminyaka engamakhulu amane lantathu; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
16 And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
UEberi wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu lane, wazala uPelegi.
17 And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[or three hundred and seventy years]], and begets sons and daughters.
UEberi wasephila, esezele uPelegi, iminyaka engamakhulu amane lamatshumi amathathu; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
18 And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
UPelegi wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu, wazala uRewu.
19 And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
UPelegi wasephila, esezele uRewu, iminyaka engamakhulu amabili layisificamunwemunye; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
20 And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.
URewu wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu lambili, wazala uSerugi.
21 And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
URewu wasephila, esezele uSerugi, iminyaka engamakhulu amabili lesikhombisa; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
22 And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
USerugi wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu, wazala uNahori.
23 And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
USerugi wasephila, esezele uNahori, iminyaka engamakhulu amabili; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
24 And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
UNahori wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amabili lesificamunwemunye, wazala uTera.
25 And Nahor lives after his begetting Terah one hundred and nineteen years [[or one hundred and twenty-nine years]], and begets sons and daughters.
UNahori wasephila, esezele uTera, iminyaka elikhulu lamatshumi ayisificamunwemunye; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
26 And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
UTera wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi ayisikhombisa, wazala uAbrama, uNahori loHarani.
27 And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;
Lalezi yizizukulwana zikaTera. UTera wazala uAbrama, uNahori loHarani; uHarani wasezala uLothi.
28 and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
UHarani wasesifa phambi kukayise uTera, elizweni lokuzalwa kwakhe, eUri yamaKhaladiya.
29 And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram’s wife [is] Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife [is] Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah.
OAbrama loNahori basebezithathela abafazi; ibizo lomkaAbrama nguSarayi, lebizo lomkaNahori nguMilka, indodakazi kaHarani, uyise kaMilka loyise kaIska.
30 And Sarai is barren—she has no child.
Kodwa uSarayi wayeyinyumba; wayengelamntwana.
31 And Terah takes his son Abram, and Lot, son of Haran, his son’s son, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, wife of his son Abram, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go toward the land of Canaan; and they come to Haran, and dwell there.
UTera wasethatha uAbrama indodana yakhe, loLothi indodana kaHarani, indodana yendodana yakhe, loSarayi umalokazana wakhe, umkaAbrama indodana yakhe; basebesuka labo eUri yamaKhaladiya, ukuya elizweni leKhanani; basebefika eHarani, bahlala khona.
32 And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
Lensuku zikaTera zaziyiminyaka engamakhulu amabili lanhlanu; uTera wasefela eHarani.
