ಆದಿಕಾಂಡ 11
So it came to pass that, all the earth, was of one manner of speech, —and of one stock of words.
And it came to pass as they brake away onwards, 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.
Then said they, each man to his friend, Come on! let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly, —So the bricks, served them for stone, and bitumen, served them 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 for ourselves a city, and a tower with its head in the heavens, so let us make for ourselves a name, —lest we be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.
And Yahweh came down, to behold the city, and the tower, —which the sons of men had 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.
Then said Yahweh: Lo! one people and one manner of speech, have they all, this, then is what they have begun to do, —now, therefore, nothing will be withholden from them which they may plan to do.
Come on! let us go down, and there confuse their speech, —that they may not understand, each man the speech of his friend.
8 ೮ ಯೆಹೋವನು ಅದೇ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಅವರನ್ನು ಭೂಲೋಕದಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಚದರಿಸಿ ಬಿಟ್ಟನು. ಅವರು ಆ ಪಟ್ಟಣ ಕಟ್ಟುವುದನ್ನು ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿಬಿಟ್ಟರು.
So Yahweh scattered them from thence over the face of all the earth, —and so 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.
For this cause, was the name thereof called Babel ["Confusion"]; because there, did Yahweh confuse the speech of all the earth, —and, from thence, did Yahweh scatter them abroad, over the face of all the earth.
These, are the genealogies of Shem, Shem was a hundred years old when he begat Arpachshad, two years after the flood
and Shem lived after he begat Arpachshad, five hundred years, —and begat sons and daughters.
And, Arpachshad, lived thirty-five years, —and begat Shelah;
and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah, four hundred and three years, —and begat sons and daughters.
And, Shelah, lived thirty years, —and begat Eber;
and Shelah lived, after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years, —and begat sons and daughters.
And Eber lived thirty-four years, —and begat Peleg;
and Eber lived after he begat Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, —and begat sons and daughters.
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
and Peleg lived after he begat Reu, two hundred and nine years, —and begat sons and daughters.
And Reu lived thirty-two years—and begat Serug;
and Reu lived after he begat Serug, two hundred and seven years, —and begat sons and daughters.
And Serug lived thirty years, —and begat Nahor;
and Serug lived after he begat Nahor, two hundred years, —and begat sons and daughters.
And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, —and begat Terah;
and Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, a hundred and nineteen years, —and begat sons and daughters.
And Terah lived seventy years, —and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 ೨೭ ತೆರಹನ ವಂಶದವರ ಚರಿತ್ರೆಯು: ತೆರಹನು ಅಬ್ರಾಮ, ನಾಹೋರ್, ಹಾರಾನ್ ಎಂಬುವರನ್ನು ಪಡೆದನು. ಹಾರಾನನು ಲೋಟನನ್ನು ಪಡೆದನು.
These, then are the generations of Terah, Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran, —and, Haran, begat Lot;
and Haran died, in the presence of Terah his father, —in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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 to themselves wives; the name of Abram’s wife, was Sarai; and, the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, daughter of Haran father of Milcah, and father of Iscah.
And, Sarai, remained 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 son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, —and came forth with them out of Ur of the Chaldees, that they might go their way towards the land of Canaan, and they came in as far as Haran and dwelt there.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, —and Terah died in Haran.
