Genesis 11
1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
那時，天下人的口音、言語都是一樣。
2 It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they settled there.
他們往東邊遷移的時候，在示拿地遇見一片平原，就住在那裏。
3 And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
他們彼此商量說：「來吧！我們要做磚，把磚燒透了。」他們就拿磚當石頭，又拿石漆當灰泥。
4 They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
他們說：「來吧！我們要建造一座城和一座塔，塔頂通天，為要傳揚我們的名，免得我們分散在全地上。」
5 And God came down to see the city and the tower, that humankind was building.
耶和華降臨，要看看世人所建造的城和塔。
6 And God said, "Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. So now nothing which they plan to do will be too difficult for them.
耶和華說：「看哪，他們成為一樣的人民，都是一樣的言語，如今既做起這事來，以後他們所要做的事就沒有不成就的了。
7 Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
我們下去，在那裏變亂他們的口音，使他們的言語彼此不通。」
8 Then God scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth; so they ceased building the city.
於是耶和華使他們從那裏分散在全地上；他們就停工，不造那城了。
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there God confused the language of all the earth. From there he scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
因為耶和華在那裏變亂天下人的言語，使眾人分散在全地上，所以那城名叫巴別。
10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
閃的後代記在下面。洪水以後二年，閃一百歲生了亞法撒。
11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.
閃生亞法撒之後又活了五百年，並且生兒養女。
12 And Arpachshad lived one hundred and thirty-five years and became the father of Kenan.
亞法撒活到三十五歲，生了沙拉。
13 And Arpachshad lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Kenan, and fathered sons and daughters. And Kenan lived one hundred and thirty years and became the father of Shelah. And Kenan lived three hundred and thirty years after he had become the father of Shelah, and fathered sons and daughters.
亞法撒生沙拉之後又活了四百零三年，並且生兒養女。
14 Shelah lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
沙拉活到三十歲，生了希伯。
15 and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.
沙拉生希伯之後又活了四百零三年，並且生兒養女。
16 Eber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
希伯活到三十四歲，生了法勒。
17 Eber lived three hundred and seventy years after he became the father of Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters.
希伯生法勒之後又活了四百三十年，並且生兒養女。
18 Peleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
法勒活到三十歲，生了拉吳。
19 Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.
法勒生拉吳之後又活了二百零九年，並且生兒養女。
20 Reu lived one hundred and thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
拉吳活到三十二歲，生了西鹿。
21 Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and fathered sons and daughters.
拉吳生西鹿之後又活了二百零七年，並且生兒養女。
22 Serug lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
西鹿活到三十歲，生了拿鶴。
23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.
西鹿生拿鶴之後又活了二百年，並且生兒養女。
24 Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
拿鶴活到二十九歲，生了他拉。
25 Nahor lived one hundred and twenty-nine years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.
拿鶴生他拉之後又活了一百一十九年，並且生兒養女。
26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
他拉活到七十歲，生了亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭。
27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
他拉的後代記在下面。他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭；哈蘭生羅得。
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim.
哈蘭死在他的本地迦勒底的吾珥，在他父親他拉之先。
29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
亞伯蘭、拿鶴各娶了妻：亞伯蘭的妻子名叫撒萊；拿鶴的妻子名叫密迦，是哈蘭的女兒；哈蘭是密迦和亦迦的父親。
30 And Sarai was barren. She had no child.
撒萊不生育，沒有孩子。
31 And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur Kasdim to go into the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
他拉帶着他兒子亞伯蘭和他孫子哈蘭的兒子羅得，並他兒婦亞伯蘭的妻子撒萊，出了迦勒底的吾珥，要往迦南地去；他們走到哈蘭，就住在那裏。
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.
他拉共活了二百零五歲，就死在哈蘭。
