ಆದಿಕಾಂಡ 11
And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.
And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.
3 ೩ “ಅವರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಬನ್ನಿ, ನಾವು ಇಟ್ಟಿಗೆಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾಡಿ, ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಸುಡೋಣ,” ಎಂದು ಅವರು ಒಬ್ಬರಿಗೊಬ್ಬರು ಮಾತನಾಡಿಕೊಂಡರು. ಅವರು ಕಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಇಟ್ಟಿಗೆಯನ್ನು, ಸುಣ್ಣಕ್ಕೆ ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಜೇಡಿಮಣ್ಣನ್ನು ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಿದರು.
And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
4 ೪ ಅವರು, “ಬನ್ನಿರಿ, ಒಂದು ಪಟ್ಟಣವನ್ನು ಕಟ್ಟೋಣ, ಆಕಾಶವನ್ನು ಮುಟ್ಟುವ ಒಂದು ಗೋಪುರವನ್ನೂ ಕಟ್ಟಿ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳೋಣ; ಹೀಗೆ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಭೂಮಿಯ ಮೇಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಚದರಿಹೋಗುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಆಸ್ಪದವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ” ಎಂದು ತಮ್ಮತಮ್ಮೊಳಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿಕೊಂಡರು.
And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
6 ೬ ನೋಡಿದ ಮೇಲೆ ಯೆಹೋವನು, “ಇವರು ಒಂದೇ ಜನಾಂಗ; ಇವರೆಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಒಂದೇ ಭಾಷೆ. ಪ್ರಾರಂಭದಲ್ಲೇ ಇವರು ಇಷ್ಟು ದೊಡ್ಡ ಯೋಜನೆಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಒಟ್ಟಾಗಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಲಾರಂಭಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇನ್ನು ಮುಂದೆ ಇವರು ಏನು ಮಾಡಲು ಉದ್ದೇಶಿಸಿದರೂ ಇವರಿಗೆ ಯಾವುದೂ ಅಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.
And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 ೮ ಯೆಹೋವನು ಅದೇ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಅವರನ್ನು ಭೂಲೋಕದಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಚದರಿಸಿ ಬಿಟ್ಟನು. ಅವರು ಆ ಪಟ್ಟಣ ಕಟ್ಟುವುದನ್ನು ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿಬಿಟ್ಟರು.
And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.
9 ೯ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಲೋಕದ ಭಾಷೆಯನ್ನು ಯೆಹೋವನು ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಗಲಿಬಿಲಿ ಮಾಡಿ, ಅವರನ್ನು ಭೂಲೋಕದಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಚದರಿಸಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಆ ಪಟ್ಟಣಕ್ಕೆ ಬಾಬೆಲ್ (ದೇವರ ಬಾಗಿಲು) ಎಂಬ ಹೆಸರಾಯಿತು.
Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.
And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
And Shelah lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.
And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.
And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
And Serug lived after he had begotten Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
And Nahor lived after he had begotten Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 ೨೭ ತೆರಹನ ವಂಶದವರ ಚರಿತ್ರೆಯು: ತೆರಹನು ಅಬ್ರಾಮ, ನಾಹೋರ್, ಹಾರಾನ್ ಎಂಬುವರನ್ನು ಪಡೆದನು. ಹಾರಾನನು ಲೋಟನನ್ನು ಪಡೆದನು.
And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.
And Haran died before the face of his father Terah in the land of his nativity at Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 ೨೯ ಅಬ್ರಾಮನೂ ನಾಹೋರನೂ ಮದುವೆಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡರು. ಅಬ್ರಾಮನ ಹೆಂಡತಿಯ ಹೆಸರು ಸಾರಯಳು, ನಾಹೋರನ ಹೆಂಡತಿಯ ಹೆಸರು ಮಿಲ್ಕಾ. ಈಕೆಯು ಹಾರಾನನ ಮಗಳು; ಹಾರಾನನು ಮಿಲ್ಕಳಿಗೂ ಇಸ್ಕಳಿಗೂ ತಂದೆ.
And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.
And Sarai was barren: she had no child.
31 ೩೧ ತೆರಹನು ತನ್ನ ಮಗನಾದ ಅಬ್ರಾಮನನ್ನೂ, ತನಗೆ ಮೊಮ್ಮಗನೂ, ಹಾರಾನನಿಗೆ ಮಗನೂ ಆಗಿರುವ ಲೋಟನನ್ನೂ, ತನಗೆ ಸೊಸೆಯೂ ಅಬ್ರಾಮನಿಗೆ ಹೆಂಡತಿಯೂ ಆಗಿರುವ ಸಾರಯಳನ್ನೂ ಕರೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಕಾನಾನ್ ದೇಶಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗಬೇಕೆಂದು ಕಲ್ದೀಯರ ಊರ್ ಎಂಬ ಪಟ್ಟಣವನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಅವರು ಹಾರಾನ ಪಟ್ಟಣಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದು ಅಲ್ಲೇ ವಾಸಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡರು.
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth together out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan, and came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
