Genesisi 11
1 Zvino nyika yose yakanga ino rurimi rumwe chete nokutaura kwakafanana.
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2 Vanhu vakati vachitamira kumabvazuva, vakawana bani romuShinari vakagaramo.
It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they settled there.
3 Vakataurirana vakati, “Uyai, ngatiitei zvidhina tigozvipisa kwazvo.” Vakashandisa zvidhina pachinzvimbo chamabwe, uye bhitumini ikava dhaka ravo.
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 Ipapo vakati, “Uyai, ngatizvivakirei guta neshongwe inosvika kudengadenga, kuti tizviitire mukurumbira uye kuti tirege kupararira panyika yose.”
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 Asi Jehovha akaburuka pasi kuti azoona guta neshongwe yakanga ichivakwa navanhu.
And God came down to see the city and the tower, that humankind was building.
6 Jehovha akati, “Kana vanhu ava vava somunhu mumwe, vachitaura rurimi rumwe chete, vakatanga kuita izvi, zvino hapana chinhu chavanoronga kuti vachiite chichavaomera.
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 Uyai, ngatiburukei tindovapesanisa mutauro wavo kuti varege kunzwisisana.”
Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
8 Saka Jehovha akavaparadzira pamusoro penyika yose ipapo, uye vakarega kuvaka guta.
Then God scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth; so they ceased building the city.
9 Ndokusaka nzvimbo iyo yakanzi Bhabheri, nokuti ipapo Jehovha akapesanisa mutauro wenyika yose. Kubva ipapo Jehovha akavaparadzira pamusoro penyika yose.
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 Iyi ndiyo rondedzero yamarudzi aShemu. Makore maviri shure kwamafashamu, Shemu paakanga ava namakore zana okuberekwa, akabereka Afakisadhi.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11 Uye shure kwokubereka Afakisadhi, Shemu akararama kwamakore mazana mashanu uye akava navamwe vanakomana navanasikana.
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.
12 Afakisadhi akati ava namakore makumi matatu namashanu okuberekwa, akabereka Shera.
And Arpachshad lived one hundred and thirty-five years and became the father of Kenan.
13 Uye shure kwokubereka kwake Shera, Afakisadhi akararama kwamakore mazana mana namatatu uye akazova navamwe vanakomana navanasikana.
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 Shera akati ava namakore makumi matatu okuberekwa, akabereka Ebheri.
Shelah lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Eber:
15 Uye shure kwokubereka kwake Ebheri, Shera akararama kwamakore mazana mana namatatu uye akazova navamwe vanakomana navanasikana.
and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.
16 Ebheri akati ava namakore makumi matatu namana okuberekwa, akabereka Peregi.
Eber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
17 Uye shure kwokubereka kwake Peregi, Ebheri akararama kwamakore mazana mana namakumi matatu uye akazova navamwe vanakomana navanasikana.
Eber lived three hundred and seventy years after he became the father of Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters.
18 Peregi akati ava namakore makumi matatu, okuberekwa akabereka Reu.
Peleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
19 Uye shure kwokubereka kwake Reu, Peregi akararama kwamakore mazana maviri namapfumbamwe uye akazova navamwe vanakomana navanasikana.
Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.
20 Reu akati ava namakore makumi matatu namaviri okuberekwa, akabereka Serugi.
Reu lived one hundred and thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
21 Uye shure kwokubereka kwake Serugi, Reu akararama kwamakore mazana maviri namanomwe uye akazova navamwe vanakomana navanasikana.
Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and fathered sons and daughters.
22 Serugi akati ava namakore makumi matatu okuberekwa, akabereka Nahori.
Serug lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
23 Uye shure kwokubereka kwake Nahori, Serugi akararama kwamakore mazana maviri uye akazova navamwe vanakomana navanasikana.
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.
24 Nahori akati ava namakore makumi maviri namapfumbamwe okuberekwa, akabereka Tera.
Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
25 Uye shure kwokubereka kwake Tera, Nahori akazorarama kwamakore zana negumi namapfumbamwe uye akazova navamwe vanakomana navanasikana.
Nahor lived one hundred and twenty-nine years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.
26 Shure kwokunge Nahori ava namakore makumi manomwe okuberekwa, akabereka Abhurama, Nahori naHarani.
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Iyi ndiyo rondedzero yavana vaTera. Tera akabereka Abhurama, Nahori naHarani. Uye Harani akabereka Roti.
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28 Baba vake Tera vachiri vapenyu Harani akafira muUri ravaKaradhea, munyika yaakaberekerwa,
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim.
29 vose vari vaviri Abhurama naNahori vakawana. Zita romukadzi waAbhurama rainzi Sarai, uye zita romukadzi waNahori rainzi Mirika; akanga ari mwanasikana waHarani, baba vaMirika naIsika.
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 Zvino Sarai akanga asingabereki; akanga asina vana.
And Sarai was barren. She had no child.
31 Tera akatora mwanakomana wake Abhurama, muzukuru wake Roti, mwanakomana waHarani, nomuroora wake Sarai, mukadzi womwanakomana wake Abhurama, uye vakaenda kuUri yavaKaradhea pamwe chete kuti vaende kuKenani. Asi vakati vasvika paHarani, vakagara ipapo.
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 Tera akararama kwamakore mazana maviri namashanu, uye akafira paHarani.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.
