Olubereberye 11
1 Ensi yonna yalina olulimi lumu, nga bakozesa ebigambo bye bimu.
Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
2 Abantu bwe baava oluuyi olw’ebuvanjuba ne batuuka mu lusenyi nsi ya Sinaali ne babeera omwo.
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 Ne bateesa nti, “Mujje tukole amatoffaali, tugookye bulungi.” Ne baba n’amatoffaali mu kifo ky’amayinja, ne kolaasi mu kifo ky’ettosi.
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
4 Awo ne bagamba nti, “Mujje twezimbire ekibuga, tutuuse omunaala gwakyo ku ggulu; twekolere erinnya, tuleme okusaasaanyizibwa okubuna ensi yonna.”
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
5 Naye Mukama nakka okulaba ekibuga n’omunaala, abaana b’abantu kye baali bazimba.
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
6 Mukama n’ayogera nti, “Laba, bali omuntu omu, era boogera olulimi lumu! Era eno ntandikwa butandikwa ey’ebyo bye banaakola; era tewali kye banaateesa kukola ekinaabalemerera.
And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
7 Mujje, tukke wansi tutabuletabule olulimi lwabwe, baleme kutegeeragana.”
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
8 Bw’atyo Mukama n’abasaasaanya ne babuna ensi yonna, n’ekibuga kyabwe ne batakimaliriza.
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 Ekibuga ekyo erinnya lyakyo kye lyava liyitibwa Babiri, kubanga eyo Mukama gye yatabuliratabulira olulimi lw’ensi yonna. Eyo Mukama gye yabasaasaanyiza okubuna ensi yonna.
That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
10 Bino bye bifa ku b’olulyo lwa Seemu: Seemu bwe yali ng’aweza emyaka kikumi, n’azaala Alupakusaadi nga wakayita emyaka ebiri okuva ku mataba.
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
11 Seemu n’amala emyaka ebikumi bitaano nga Alupakusaadi amaze okusaalibwa. N’azaaliramu abaana aboobulenzi n’aboobuwala.
And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 Alupakusaadi bwe yaweza emyaka asatu mu etaano n’azaala Seera,
When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
13 Alupakusaadi bwe yamala okuzaala Seera n’awangaala emyaka emirala ebikumi bina mu esatu, omwo n’azaaliramu abaana aboobulenzi n’aboobuwala.
And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
14 Seera bwe yaweza emyaka amakumi asatu n’azaala Eberi,
When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
15 ate Seera n’aweza emyaka emirala ebikumi bina mu asatu ng’amaze okuzaala Eberi, era omwo n’azaaliramu abaana abalala aboobulenzi n’aboobuwala.
And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 Eberi bwe yaweza emyaka amakumi asatu mu ena n’azaala Peregi.
When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
17 Eberi bwe yamala okuzaala Peregi n’awangaala emyaka ebikumi bina mu amakumi asatu, omwo n’azaaliramu abaana abalala aboobulenzi n’aboobuwala.
And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 Peregi bwe yaweza emyaka amakumi asatu n’azaala Leewo,
When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
19 bwe yamala okuzaala Leewo n’awangaala emyaka emirala ebikumi bibiri mu mwenda, n’azaaliramu abaana aboobulenzi n’aboobuwala.
And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 Leewo bwe yaweza emyaka amakumi asatu mu ebiri n’azaala Serugi.
When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.
21 N’awangaala emyaka emirala ebikumi bibiri mu musanvu. Omwo n’azaaliramu abaana aboobulenzi n’aboobuwala.
And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 Serugi bwe yaweza emyaka amakumi asatu n’azaala Nakoli,
When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.
23 bwe yamala okuzaala Nakoli n’awangaala emyaka emirala ebikumi bibiri. Omwo n’azaaliramu abaana aboobulenzi n’aboobuwala.
And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 Nakoli bwe yaweza emyaka amakumi abiri mu mwenda n’azaala Teera.
When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
25 Bwe yamala okuzaala Teera n’awangaala emyaka emirala kikumi mu kkumi na mwenda, era omwo n’azaaliramu abaana aboobulenzi n’aboobuwala.
And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 Teera bwe yaweza emyaka nsanvu, n’azaala Ibulaamu, ne Nakoli ne Kalani.
When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Bino bye bifa ku b’olulyo lwa Teera: Teera ye kitaawe wa Ibulaamu, ne Nakoli ne Kalani; Kalani ye yali kitaawe wa Lutti.
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28 Kalani yafa nga kitaawe Teera tannafa. Yafiira mu Uli ey’Abakaludaaya mwe yazaalirwa.
During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 Ibulaamu ne Nakoli ne bawasa; erinnya lya mukazi wa Ibulaamu lyali Salaayi, ate mukazi wa Nakoli nga ye Mirika, muwala wa Kalani, kitaawe wa Mirika ne Isika.
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
30 Salaayi yali mugumba, teyalina mwana.
But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 Teera n’atwala Ibulaamu mutabani we Lutti muzzukulu we mutabani wa Kalani, ne Salaayi muka mutabani we Ibulaamu, ne bagenda bonna okuva mu Uli eky’Abakaludaaya okugenda mu nsi ya Kalani; bwe baatuuka mu Kalani, ne babeera omwo.
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
32 Emyaka gya Teera gyali ebikumi bibiri mu etaano; Teera n’afiira mu Kalani.
Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
