UGenesisi 11
1 Umhlaba wonke wawulolimi lunye lokukhuluma okufananayo.
And all the earth was one lip, and there was one language to all.
2 Kwathi abantu belokhu beqhelela empumalanga, bafumana indawo evulekileyo eShinari basebesakha khona.
And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they lived there.
3 Basebetshelana bathi, “Kasitshayeni izitina sizitshise kakhulu.” Babesebenzisa izitina endaweni yamatshe, lethara endaweni yodaka.
And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
4 Basebesithi, “Zwanini, kasizakheleni idolobho libe lomphongolo ofika emazulwini, ukuze sizenzele ibizo singaze sasabalala umhlaba wonke.”
And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
5 Kodwa uThixo wehla wazalibona idolobho kanye lomphongolo abantu ababewakha.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
6 UThixo wathi, “Nxa bengabantu banye bekhuluma limi lunye sebeqalisile ukwenza lokhu, pho kakukho okungabehlula.
And the Lord said, Behold, [there is] one race, and one lip of all, and they have begun to do this, and now nothing shall fail from them of all that they may have undertaken to do.
7 Zwanini, kasehleni siye phansi sisanganise ulimi lwabo bangabe besazwana.”
Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.
8 Kanjalo uThixo wabahlakaza emhlabeni wonke, bayekela ukwakha idolobho.
And the Lord scattered them thence over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city and the tower.
9 Kungakho labizwa ngokuthi yiBhabheli, ngoba khonapho uThixo wasanganisa ulimi lomhlaba wonke. Kusukela lapho uThixo wabahlakazela emhlabeni wonke.
On this account its name was called Confusion, because there the Lord confounded the languages of all the earth, and thence the Lord scattered them upon the face of all the earth.
10 Lo ngumlando wosendo lukaShemu. Eminyakeni emibili emva kukazamcolo, uShemu eseleminyaka elikhulu wazala u-Afazadi.
And these [are] the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.
11 Esezele u-Afazadi, uShemu waphila okweminyaka engamakhulu amahlanu, njalo waba lamanye amadodana lamadodakazi.
And Sem lived, after he had begotten Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
12 Kwathi u-Afazadi esephile iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu lanhlanu, wazala uShela.
And Arphaxad lived a hundred and thirty-five years, and begot Cainan.
13 Esezele uShela, u-Afazadi waphila okweminyaka engamakhulu amane lantathu, njalo waba lamanye amadodana lamadodakazi.
And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Cainan, four hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died. And Cainan lived a hundred and thirty years and begot Sala; and Canaan lived after he had begotten Sala, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
14 UShela esephile iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu wazala u-Ebha.
And Sala lived an hundred and thirty years, and begot Heber.
15 Esezele u-Ebha, uShela waphila okweminyaka engamakhulu amane lantathu, njalo waba lamanye amadodana lamadodakazi.
And Sala lived after he had begotten Heber, three hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
16 U-Ebha esephile iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu lane wazala uPhelegi.
And Heber lived an hundred and thirty-four years, and begot Phaleg.
17 Esezele uPhelegi, u-Ebha waphila okweminyaka engamakhulu amane lamatshumi amathathu, njalo waba lamanye amadodana lamadodakazi.
And Heber lived after he had begotten Phaleg two hundred and seventy years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
18 UPhelegi esephile iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu, wazala uRewu.
And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.
19 Esezele uRewu, uPhelegi waphila okweminyaka engamakhulu amabili lesificamunwemunye, njalo waba lamanye amadodana lamadodakazi.
And Phaleg lived after he had begotten Ragau, two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
20 Kwathi uRewu esephile iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu lambili, wazala uSerugi.
And Ragau lived and hundred and thirty and two years, and begot Seruch.
21 Esezele uSerugi, uRewu waphila okweminyaka engamakhulu amabili lesikhombisa, njalo waba lamanye amadodana lamadodakazi.
And Raau lived after he had begotten Seruch, two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
22 Kwathi uSerugi esephile iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu, wazala uNahori.
And Seruch lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot Nachor.
23 Esezele uNahori, uSerugi waphila okweminyaka engamakhulu amabili, njalo waba lamanye amadodana lamadodakazi.
And Seruch lived after he had begotten Nachor, two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters, and died.
24 UNahori esephile iminyaka engamatshumi amabili lesificamunwemunye wazala uThera.
And Nachor lived a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
25 Esezele uThera, uNahori waphila okweminyaka elikhulu letshumi lesificamunwemunye, njalo waba lamanye amadodana lamadodakazi.
And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, an hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.
26 UThera esephile iminyaka engamatshumi ayisikhombisa wazala u-Abhrama, uNahori loHarani.
And Tharrha lived seventy years, and begot Abram, and Nachor, and Arrhan.
27 Lo ngumlando wosendo lukaThera. UThera wazala u-Abhrama, uNahori loHarani. Kwathi uHarani wazala uLothi.
And these [are] the generations of Tharrha. Tharrha begot Abram and Nachor, and Arrhan; and Arrhan begot Lot.
28 Kwathi uyise uThera esaphila uHarani wafa bese-Uri idolobho lamaKhaladiya, elizweni lokuzalwa kwakhe.
And Arrhan died in the presence of Tharrha his father, in the land in which he was born, in the country of the Chaldees.
29 U-Abhrama loNahori bathatha bobabili. Ibizo lomka-Abhrama lalinguSarayi, kwathi ibizo likamkaNahori linguMilikha; wayeyindodakazi kaHarani uyise kaMilikha kanye lo-Isikha.
And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.
30 Kodwa uSarayi wayeyinyumba; wayengelabantwana.
And Sara was barren, and did not bear children.
31 UThera wathatha indodana yakhe u-Abhrama, lomzukulu wakhe uLothi indodana kaHarani, lomalokazana wakhe uSarayi umfazi wendodana yakhe u-Abhrama, basuka bonke e-Uri lamaKhaladiya baqonda eKhenani. Kodwa bafika eHarani basebesakha khona.
And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he lived there.
32 UThera waphila okweminyaka engamakhulu amabili lanhlanu, wafela eHarani.
And all the days of Tharrha in the land of Charrhan were two hundred and five years, and Tharrha died in Charrhan.
