Mose 1 11
1 Le ɣe ma ɣi me la, amegbetɔƒome blibo la doa gbe ɖeka ko.
And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
2 Esi amewo de asi agbɔsɔsɔ ɖe edzi me la, woɖo ta ɣedzeƒe lɔƒo, eye woke ɖe anyigba aɖe si sɔ la ŋu le Sinar. Eteƒe medidi kura hafi amewo sɔ gbɔ ɖe afi sia o.
and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;
3 Wogblɔ na wo nɔewo be, “Miva, mina míame anyikpewo, míaƒo dzo wo nyuie.” Wowɔ anyikpe ŋu dɔ ɖe kpe ŋutɔ teƒe kple aŋɔ yibɔ ɖe anyi teƒe.
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.
4 Woyi edzi gblɔ be, “Miva, mina míatso du na mía ɖokui, eye míawɔ gbetakpɔxɔ kɔkɔ aɖe wòayi aɖatɔ dziƒo, be míaƒe ŋkɔ nade du ne míagakaka ɖe anyigba katã dzi o.”
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.”
5 Ke esi Yehowa va kpɔ dua kple mɔ si tum amegbetɔviwo nɔ la,
And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
6 egblɔ be, “Ne woate ŋu awɔ nu siawo katã fifia, esi wònye azɔ koe wodze sii be gbe ɖeka gblɔm yewole, eye dukɔ ɖeka yewonye la, mibu nu si woava wɔ emegbe la ŋu kpɔ! Naneke meli si woado kpo wɔwɔ o.
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.
7 Mina míaɖi ayi anyigba dzi, eye míatɔtɔ woƒe gbe ale be womagase wo nɔewo gɔme o!”
Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
8 Ale Yehowa ka wo katã hlẽ ɖe anyigba blibo la dzi. Ale du la tsotso nu tso.
And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
9 Eya ta wona ŋkɔ du ma be Babel si gɔmee nye, “Tɔtɔ,” elabena afi ma Yehowa tɔtɔ gbe na amewo le, eye wokaka ɖe afi sia afi le anyigba blibo la dzi.
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.
10 Esiae nye Sem ƒe ŋutinya. eve le tsiɖɔɖɔ megbe, esime Sem xɔ ƒe alafa ɖeka la, edzi Arfaxad.
These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11 Esi wòdzi Arfaxad megbe la, eganɔ agbe ƒe alafa atɔ̃, eye wògadzi viŋutsu kple vinyɔnu bubuwo.
And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
12 Esi Arfaxad xɔ ƒe blaetɔ̃ vɔ atɔ̃ la, edzi Sela.
And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.
13 Eye esi wòdzi Sela megbe la, Arfaxad ganɔ agbe ƒe alafa ene kple etɔ̃, eye wòdzi viŋutsu kple vinyɔnu bubuwo.
And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
14 Esi Sela xɔ ƒe blaetɔ̃ la, edzi Eber,
And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
15 eye esi wòdzi Eber megbe la, Sela ganɔ agbe ƒe alafa ene kple etɔ̃, eye wòdzi viŋutsu kple vinyɔnu bubuwo.
And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[or three hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
16 Esi Eber xɔ ƒe blaetɔ̃-vɔ-ene la, edzi Peleg.
And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
17 Esi wòdzi Peleg la, Eber ganɔ agbe ƒe alafa ene blaetɔ̃, eye wògadzi viŋutsu kple vinyɔnu bubuwo.
And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[or three hundred and seventy years]], and begets sons and daughters.
18 Esi Peleg xɔ ƒe blaetɔ̃ la, edzi Reu.
And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
19 Eye esi wòdzi Reu la, Peleg ganɔ agbe ƒe alafa eve kple asiekɛ, eye wògadzi viŋutsu kple vinyɔnu bubuwo.
And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
20 Esi Reu xɔ ƒe blaetɔ̃-vɔ-eve la, edzi Serug.
And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.
21 Eye esi wòdzi Serug la, Reu ganɔ agbe ƒe alafa eve kple adre, eye wògadzi viŋutsu kple vinyɔnu bubuwo.
And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
22 Esi Serug xɔ ƒe blaetɔ̃ la, edzi Nahor.
And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
23 Eye esi wòdzi Nahor megbe la, Serug ganɔ agbe ƒe alafa eve, eye wògadzi viŋutsu kple vinyɔnu bubuwo.
And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
24 Esi Nahor xɔ ƒe blaeve-vɔ-asiekɛ la, edzi Tera.
And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
25 Eye esi wòdzi Tera la, Nahor ganɔ agbe ƒe alafa ɖeka kple wuiasiekɛ, eye wògadzi viŋutsu kple vinyɔnu bubuwo.
And Nahor lives after his begetting Terah one hundred and nineteen years [[or one hundred and twenty-nine years]], and begets sons and daughters.
26 Esi Tera xɔ ƒe blaadre la, edzi Abram, Nahor kple Haran.
And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Tera ƒe dzidzimeviwo ŋutinya enye si. Tera dzi Abram, Nahor kple Haran; eye Haran dzi Lot.
And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;
28 Ke Haran ku kaba le anyigba si dzi wodzii ɖo la dzi si nye Ur le Kaldea le esime fofoa Tera ganɔ agbe ko.
and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 Abram ɖe fofoa ƒe vi Sarai le esime nɔvia Nahor ɖe Haran si ku la ƒe vi, Milka. Nɔviŋutsu si nɔ Milka sie nye Yiska.
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.
30 Ke Sarai medzi vi aɖeke o.
And Sarai is barren—she has no child.
31 Tera kplɔ via Abram, eƒe tɔgbuiyɔvi Lot, ame si nye Haran ƒe vi la kple via Abram srɔ̃, Sarai, eye wodzo le Ur le Kaldea be yewoayi Kanaanyigba dzi. Ke wotɔ, eye wotso kɔƒe ɖe Haran.
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.
32 Tera ku le Haran esi wòxɔ ƒe alafa eve kple atɔ̃.
And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
