Jenèz 11
1 Nan konmansman, tout moun sou latè te pale yon sèl lang, yonn te konprann lòt.
And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
2 Apre yo pati soti kote solèy leve a, yo rive nan yon plenn nan peyi Chenea. Yo moute kay yo la, yo rete.
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 Lè sa a, yonn di lòt. Mezanmi, vini non! Ann fè brik. Ann kwit yo nan dife. Se konsa, yo pran brik sèvi wòch pou bati kay, yo pran asfat sèvi mòtye.
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 Apre sa, yo di. Annou wè! Ann bati yon gwo lavil pou nou rete ak yon gwo gwo kay tout won byen wo ki rive jouk nan syèl la. Konsa tout moun va respekte nou, yo p'ap ka gaye nou toupatou sou latè.
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 Seyè a desann pou l' wè lavil la ansanm ak gwo kay won moun yo t'ap bati a.
And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
6 Epi li di. Koulye a, gade! Yo tout fè yon sèl pèp. Yo tout yo pale yon sèl lang. Gade sa yo konmanse ap fè. Talè konsa y'ap pare pou yo fè sa yo vle.
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 Bon. N'ap desann, n'ap mele lang yo. Konsa, yonn p'ap ka konprann sa lòt ap di.
Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
8 Se konsa Seyè a gaye yo toupatou sou latè. Yo sispann bati lavil la.
And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
9 Se poutèt sa yo rele lavil la Babèl, paske se la Seyè a te mele lang tout moun ki rete sou latè, li fè yo pati, li gaye yo toupatou sou latè.
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 Men pitit pitit Sèm yo. Dezan apre inondasyon an, Sèm te gen santan (100 an) lè li fè yon pitit gason yo rele Apachad.
These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11 Apre sa, li viv senksanzan (500 an) ankò. Li te fè lòt pitit gason ak pitit fi.
And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
12 Apachad te gen trannsenkan lè li te fè yon pitit gason yo rele Chela.
And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.
13 Apre sa, li viv katsantwazan (403 an) ankò. Li te fè lòt pitit gason ak pitit fi.
And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
14 Chela te gen trantan lè li fè yon pitit gason yo rele Ebè.
And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
15 Apre sa, li viv katsantwazan (403 an) ankò. Li te fè lòt pitit gason ak pitit fi.
And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[or three hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
16 Ebè te gen trannkatran lè li fè yon pitit gason yo rele Pelèg.
And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
17 Apre sa, li viv katsantrantan (430 an). Li te fè lòt pitit gason ak pitit fi.
And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[or three hundred and seventy years]], and begets sons and daughters.
18 Pelèg te gen trantan lè li fè yon pitit gason yo rele Reou.
And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
19 Apre sa, li viv desannevan (209 an) ankò. Li te fè lòt pitit gason ak pitit fi.
And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
20 Reou te gen tranndezan lè li fè yon pitit gason yo rele Sewoug.
And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.
21 Apre sa, li viv desansetan (207 an) ankò. Li fè lòt pitit gason ak pitit fi.
And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
22 Sewoug te gen trantan lè li fè yon pitit gason yo rele Nakò.
And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
23 Apre sa, li viv desanzan (200 an) ankò. Li te fè lòt pitit gason ak pitit fi.
And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
24 Nakò te gen ventnevan lè li fè yon pitit gason yo rele Terak.
And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
25 Apre sa, li viv sandiznevan (119 an) ankò. Li te fè lòt pitit gason ak pitit fi.
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 Terak te gen swasanndizan lè li fè twa pitit gason yo rele Abram, Nakò ak Aran.
And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Men pitit ak pitit pitit Terak yo: Terak te papa Abram, Nakò ak Aran. Aran te papa Lòt.
And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;
28 Aran mouri anvan papa l'. Li mouri lavil Our nan peyi Kalde kote l' te fèt la.
and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 Abram ak Nakò te fè pozisyon. Abram marye ak Sarayi, Nakò marye ak Milka, pitit fi Aran. Aran te gen yon lòt pitit ankò yo te rele Jiska.
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 Sarayi pa t' gen pitit, li pa t' ka fè pitit.
And Sarai is barren—she has no child.
31 Terak pran pitit li, Abram, pitit pitit li, Lòt, ki te pitit Aran, ansanm ak bèlfi li Sarayi ki te madanm Abram, pitit li. Li pati ak yo, li kite lavil Our nan peyi Kalde pou li ale nan peyi Kanaran. Men lè yo rive lavil Karan, yo te rete la.
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 Se la Terak mouri. Li te gen desansenkan (205 an).
And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
