< 創世記 11 >
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 時に人々は東に移り、シナルの地に平野を得て、そこに住んだ。
And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
3 彼らは互に言った、「さあ、れんがを造って、よく焼こう」。こうして彼らは石の代りに、れんがを得、しっくいの代りに、アスファルトを得た。
And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
4 彼らはまた言った、「さあ、町と塔とを建てて、その頂を天に届かせよう。そしてわれわれは名を上げて、全地のおもてに散るのを免れよう」。
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.
5 時に主は下って、人の子たちの建てる町と塔とを見て、
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
6 言われた、「民は一つで、みな同じ言葉である。彼らはすでにこの事をしはじめた。彼らがしようとする事は、もはや何事もとどめ得ないであろう。
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.
7 さあ、われわれは下って行って、そこで彼らの言葉を乱し、互に言葉が通じないようにしよう」。
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.
8 こうして主が彼らをそこから全地のおもてに散らされたので、彼らは町を建てるのをやめた。
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9 これによってその町の名はバベルと呼ばれた。主がそこで全地の言葉を乱されたからである。主はそこから彼らを全地のおもてに散らされた。
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.
10 セムの系図は次のとおりである。セムは百歳になって洪水の二年の後にアルパクサデを生んだ。
And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
11 セムはアルパクサデを生んで後、五百年生きて、男子と女子を生んだ。
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 アルパクサデは三十五歳になってシラを生んだ。
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 アルパクサデはシラを生んで後、四百三年生きて、男子と女子を生んだ。
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.
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 シラはエベルを生んで後、四百三年生きて、男子と女子を生んだ。
And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 エベルはペレグを生んで後、四百三十年生きて、男子と女子を生んだ。
And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 ペレグはリウを生んで後、二百九年生きて、男子と女子を生んだ。
And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Ragau lived and hundred thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 リウはセルグを生んで後、二百七年生きて、男子と女子を生んだ。
And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 セルグはナホルを生んで後、二百年生きて、男子と女子を生んだ。
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 ナホルはテラを生んで後、百十九年生きて、男子と女子を生んだ。
And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
26 テラは七十歳になってアブラム、ナホルおよびハランを生んだ。
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 テラの系図は次のとおりである。テラはアブラム、ナホルおよびハランを生み、ハランはロトを生んだ。
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 ハランは父テラにさきだって、その生れた地、カルデヤのウルで死んだ。
And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
29 アブラムとナホルは妻をめとった。アブラムの妻の名はサライといい、ナホルの妻の名はミルカといってハランの娘である。ハランはミルカの父、またイスカの父である。
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.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 テラはその子アブラムと、ハランの子である孫ロトと、子アブラムの妻である嫁サライとを連れて、カナンの地へ行こうとカルデヤのウルを出たが、ハランに着いてそこに住んだ。
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.
32 テラの年は二百五歳であった。テラはハランで死んだ。
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.