Ebandeli 11
1 Na tango wana, bato ya mokili mobimba bazalaki koloba monoko moko mpe bazalaki na elobeli moko.
And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
2 Tango bato bazalaki kotambola mpo na kokende na ngambo ya weste, bamonaki etando moko ya monene na mokili ya Shineari mpe bavandaki kuna.
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 Balobanaki bango na bango: « Tosala babiliki mpe totumba yango na moto. » Boye, basalelaki babiliki lokola mabanga mpe potopoto ya mwindo mpo na kotongela.
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 Balobaki: « Tokende, totonga engumba mpo na biso mpe ndako molayi oyo songe na yango ekokoma kino na lola, mpo ete kombo na biso ekende sango mpe topanzana te na mokili mobimba. »
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 Kasi Yawe akitaki mpo na kotala engumba mpe ndako molayi oyo bato babandaki kotonga.
And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
6 Yawe alobaki: « Lokola bato oyo nyonso balongi kokoma ekolo moko mpe koloba monoko moko, bongo bakomi kino kosala mosala monene oyo, eloko moko te ekopekisa bango sik’oyo kokokisa mabongisi nyonso oyo bakokana kosala!
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 Boye, tokita mpe totia mobulu kati na maloba na bango mpo ete bango na bango bayokana lisusu te. »
Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
8 Wuta na Babeli, Yawe apanzaki bango na mokili mobimba mpe batikaki kotonga engumba.
And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
9 Yango wana, babengaka yango Babeli, pamba te kuna nde Yawe atiaki mobulu kati na maloba ya bato ya mokili mobimba, mpe wuta kuna, Yawe apanzaki bato na mokili mobimba.
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 Tala libota ya Semi: Mibu mibale sima na mpela, wana Semi azalaki nanu na mibu nkama moko ya mbotama, akomaki tata ya Aripakishadi.
These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11 Sima na mbotama ya Aripakishadi, Semi awumelaki na bomoi mibu nkama mitano mpe abotaki bana mosusu ya mibali mpe ya basi.
And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
12 Tango Aripakishadi akokisaki mibu tuku misato na mitano ya mbotama, abotaki mwana mobali na kombo « Shela. »
And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.
13 Sima na mbotama ya Shela, Aripakishadi awumelaki na bomoi mibu nkama minei na misato mpe abotaki bana mosusu ya mibali mpe ya basi.
And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
14 Tango Shela akokisaki mibu tuku misato ya mbotama, abotaki Eberi.
And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
15 Mpe sima na mbotama ya Eberi, Shela awumelaki lisusu na bomoi mibu nkama minei na misato mpe abotaki bana mosusu ya mibali mpe ya basi.
And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[or three hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
16 Tango Eberi akokisaki mibu tuku misato na minei ya mbotama, abotaki Pelegi.
And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
17 Mpe sima na mbotama ya Pelegi, Eberi awumelaki lisusu na bomoi mibu nkama minei na tuku misato mpe abotaki bana mosusu ya mibali mpe ya basi.
And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[or three hundred and seventy years]], and begets sons and daughters.
18 Tango Pelegi akokisaki mibu tuku misato ya mbotama, abotaki Rewu.
And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
19 Mpe sima na mbotama ya Rewu, Pelegi awumelaki lisusu na bomoi mibu nkama mibale na libwa mpe abotaki bana mosusu ya mibali mpe ya basi.
And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
20 Tango Rewu akokisaki mibu tuku misato na mibale ya mbotama, abotaki Serugi.
And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.
21 Sima na mbotama ya Serugi, Rewu awumelaki lisusu na bomoi mibu nkama mibale na sambo mpe abotaki bana mosusu ya mibali mpe ya basi.
And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
22 Tango Serugi akokisaki mibu tuku misato ya mbotama, abotaki Naori.
And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
23 Sima na mbotama ya Naori, Serugi awumelaki lisusu na bomoi mibu nkama mibale mpe abotaki bana mosusu ya mibali mpe ya basi.
And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
24 Tango Naori akokisaki mibu tuku mibale na libwa ya mbotama, abotaki Tera.
And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
25 Mpe sima na mbotama ya Tera, Naori awumelaki lisusu na bomoi mibu nkama moko na zomi na libwa mpe abotaki bana mosusu ya mibali mpe ya basi.
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 Tango Tera akokisaki mibu tuku sambo ya mbotama, abotaki Abrami, Naori mpe Arani.
And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Tala libota ya Tera: Tera abotaki Abrami, Naori mpe Arani. Arani nde azalaki tata ya Loti.
And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;
28 Wana tata na ye, Tera, azalaki nanu na bomoi, Arani akufaki kati na Uri, mokili ya bato ya Chalide, mokili epai wapi abotamaki.
and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 Kombo ya mwasi ya Abrami ezalaki « Sarayi, » mpe kombo ya mwasi ya Naori ezalaki « Milika. » Milika azalaki mwana mwasi ya Arani; mpe Arani azalaki na mwana mwasi mosusu: kombo na ye ezalaki « Yisika. »
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 azalaki ekomba: azalaki na mwana te.
And Sarai is barren—she has no child.
31 Tera azwaki Abrami, mwana na ye ya mobali; Loti, koko na ye mpe mwana mobali ya Arani; mpe Sarayi, bokilo na ye mpe mwasi ya mwana na ye Abrami, babimaki na Uri ya bato ya Chalide mpo na kokende na Kanana. Kasi tango bakomaki na engumba Arani, bavandaki kuna.
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 Tera awumelaki na bomoi mibu nkama mibale na mitano, sima akufaki na engumba Arani.
And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
