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1 온 땅의 구음이 하나이요 언어가 하나이었더라
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2 이에 그들이 동방으로 옮기다가 시날 평지를 만나 거기 거하고
It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they settled there.
3 서로 말하되 자, 벽돌을 만들어 견고히 굽자 하고 이에 벽돌로 돌을 대신하며 역청으로 진흙을 대신하고
And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
4 또 말하되 자, 성과 대를 쌓아 대 꼭대기를 하늘에 닿게 하여 우리 이름을 내고 온 지면에 흩어짐을 면하자 하였더니
They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
5 여호와께서 인생들의 쌓는 성과 대를 보시려고 강림하셨더라
And God came down to see the city and the tower, that humankind was building.
6 여호와께서 가라사대 이 무리가 한 족속이요 언어도 하나이므로 이같이 시작하였으니 이후로는 그 경영하는 일을 금지할 수 없으리로다
And God said, "Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. So now nothing which they plan to do will be too difficult for them.
7 자, 우리가 내려가서 거기서 그들의 언어를 혼잡케 하여 그들로 서로 알아듣지 못하게 하자 하시고
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
8 여호와께서 거기서 그들을 온 지면에 흩으신 고로 그들이 성 쌓기를 그쳤더라
Then God scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth; so they ceased building the city.
9 그러므로 그 이름을 바벨이라 하니 이는 여호와께서 거기서 온 땅의 언어를 혼잡케 하셨음이라 여호와께서 거기서 그들을 온 지면에 흩으셨더라
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there God confused the language of all the earth. From there he scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
10 셈의 후예는 이러하니라 셈은 일백 세 곧 홍수 후 이 년에 아르박삿을 낳았고
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11 아르박삿을 낳은 후에 오백 년을 지내며 자녀를 낳았으며
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.
12 아르박삿은 삼십오 세에 셀라를 낳았고
And Arpachshad lived one hundred and thirty-five years and became the father of Kenan.
13 셀라를 낳은 후에 사백삼 년을 지내며 자녀를 낳았으며
And Arpachshad lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Kenan, and fathered sons and daughters. And Kenan lived one hundred and thirty years and became the father of Shelah. And Kenan lived three hundred and thirty years after he had become the father of Shelah, and fathered sons and daughters.
14 셀라는 삼십 세에 에벨을 낳았고
Shelah lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
15 에벨을 낳은 후에 사백삼 년을 지내며 자녀를 낳았으며
and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.
16 에벨은 삼십사 세에 벨렉을 낳았고
Eber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
17 벨렉을 낳은 후에 사백삼십 년을 지내며 자녀를 낳았으며
Eber lived three hundred and seventy years after he became the father of Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters.
18 벨렉은 삼십 세에 르우를 낳았고
Peleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
19 르우를 낳은 후에 이백구 년을 지내며 자녀를 낳았으며
Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.
20 르우는 삼십이 세에 스룩을 낳았고
Reu lived one hundred and thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
21 스룩을 낳은 후에 이백칠 년을 지내며 자녀를 낳았으며
Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and fathered sons and daughters.
22 스룩은 삼십 세에 나홀을 낳았고
Serug lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
23 나홀을 낳은 후에 이백 년을 지내며 자녀를 낳았으며
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.
24 나홀은 이십구 세에 데라를 낳았고
Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
25 데라를 낳은 후에 일백십구 년을 지내며 자녀를 낳았으며
Nahor lived one hundred and twenty-nine years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.
26 데라는 칠십 세에 아브람과 나홀과 하란을 낳았더라
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 데라의 후예는 이러하니라 데라는 아브람과 나홀과 하란을 낳았고 하란은 롯을 낳았으며
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28 하란은 그 아비 데라보다 먼저 본토 갈대아 우르에서 죽었더라
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim.
29 아브람과 나홀이 장가 들었으니 아브람의 아내 이름은 사래며 나홀의 아내 이름은 밀가니 하란의 딸이요 하란은 밀가의 아비며 또 이스가의 아비더라
And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.
30 사래는 잉태하지 못하므로 자식이 없었더라
And Sarai was barren. She had no child.
31 데라가 그 아들 아브람과 하란의 아들 그 손자 롯과 그 자부 아브람의 아내 사래를 데리고 갈대아 우르에서 떠나 가나안 땅으로 가고자 하더니 하란에 이르러 거기 거하였으며
And Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and with them he set out from Ur Kasdim to go into the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
32 데라는 이백오 세를 향수하고 하란에서 죽었더라
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.

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