UGenesisi 11
1 Umhlaba wonke-ke wawulolimi lunye, lamazwi manye.
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2 Kwasekusithi ekuhambeni kwabo bevela empumalanga bafica igceke elizweni leShinari, basebehlala khona.
It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they settled there.
3 Basebesithi ngulowo lalowo kumakhelwane wakhe: Wozani, asenzeni izitina sizitshise lokuzitshisa; lesitina saba lilitshe kubo, lengcino yaba ludaka kubo.
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 Basebesithi: Wozani, asizakheleni umuzi lomphotshongo osihloko sawo sisemazulwini, besesizenzela ibizo, hlezi sihlakazeke ebusweni bomhlaba wonke.
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 INkosi yasisehla ukubona umuzi lomphotshongo abantwana babantu abawakhayo.
And God came down to see the city and the tower, that humankind was building.
6 INkosi yasisithi: Khangela, yisizwe sinye, njalo balolimi lunye bonke, njalo yikho abaqala ukukwenza; khathesi-ke akulalutho olungabehlula abamisa ukulwenza.
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 Wozani, asehle, siphambanise lapho ulimi lwabo, ukuze bangezwa, ngulowo lalowo ulimi lomakhelwane wakhe.
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
8 Ngakho iNkosi yabahlakazela ebusweni bomhlaba wonke besuka lapho; basebesima ukwakha umuzi.
Then God scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth; so they ceased building the city.
9 Ngalokho kwabizwa ibizo lawo ngokuthi iBabeli, ngoba lapho iNkosi yaphambanisa ulimi lomhlaba wonke; kusukela lapho iNkosi yabahlakaza ebusweni bomhlaba wonke.
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 Lezi yizizukulwana zikaShemu. UShemu wayeleminyaka elikhulu, wasezala uArpakishadi, iminyaka emibili emva kukazamcolo.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11 UShemu wasephila, esezele uArpakishadi, iminyaka engamakhulu amahlanu; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.
12 UArpakishadi wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu lanhlanu, wazala uShela.
And Arpachshad lived one hundred and thirty-five years and became the father of Kenan.
13 UArpakishadi wasephila, esezele uShela, iminyaka engamakhulu amane lantathu; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
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 UShela wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu, wazala uEberi.
Shelah lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
15 UShela wasephila, esezele uEberi, iminyaka engamakhulu amane lantathu; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.
16 UEberi wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu lane, wazala uPelegi.
Eber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
17 UEberi wasephila, esezele uPelegi, iminyaka engamakhulu amane lamatshumi amathathu; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
Eber lived three hundred and seventy years after he became the father of Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters.
18 UPelegi wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu, wazala uRewu.
Peleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
19 UPelegi wasephila, esezele uRewu, iminyaka engamakhulu amabili layisificamunwemunye; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.
20 URewu wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu lambili, wazala uSerugi.
Reu lived one hundred and thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
21 URewu wasephila, esezele uSerugi, iminyaka engamakhulu amabili lesikhombisa; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and fathered sons and daughters.
22 USerugi wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amathathu, wazala uNahori.
Serug lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
23 USerugi wasephila, esezele uNahori, iminyaka engamakhulu amabili; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.
24 UNahori wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi amabili lesificamunwemunye, wazala uTera.
Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
25 UNahori wasephila, esezele uTera, iminyaka elikhulu lamatshumi ayisificamunwemunye; wazala amadodana lamadodakazi.
Nahor lived one hundred and twenty-nine years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.
26 UTera wasephila iminyaka engamatshumi ayisikhombisa, wazala uAbrama, uNahori loHarani.
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Lalezi yizizukulwana zikaTera. UTera wazala uAbrama, uNahori loHarani; uHarani wasezala uLothi.
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28 UHarani wasesifa phambi kukayise uTera, elizweni lokuzalwa kwakhe, eUri yamaKhaladiya.
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim.
29 OAbrama loNahori basebezithathela abafazi; ibizo lomkaAbrama nguSarayi, lebizo lomkaNahori nguMilka, indodakazi kaHarani, uyise kaMilka loyise kaIska.
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 Kodwa uSarayi wayeyinyumba; wayengelamntwana.
And Sarai was barren. She had no child.
31 UTera wasethatha uAbrama indodana yakhe, loLothi indodana kaHarani, indodana yendodana yakhe, loSarayi umalokazana wakhe, umkaAbrama indodana yakhe; basebesuka labo eUri yamaKhaladiya, ukuya elizweni leKhanani; basebefika eHarani, bahlala khona.
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 Lensuku zikaTera zaziyiminyaka engamakhulu amabili lanhlanu; uTera wasefela eHarani.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.
