1 Mose 11
1 Bere bi, na nnipa a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa ka kasa koro.
And the whole earth is of one language, and of the same words,
2 Saa nnipa yi tu baa apuei fam no, wɔbɛtoo asase tamaa wɔ Babilonia asase so, na wɔtenaa hɔ.
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 Wosisee wɔn ho wɔn ho se, “Momma yentwa ntayaa na yɛnto mma ɛmmen yiye.” Na wɔde ntayaa ne ama na esi adan.
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 Na wɔkae bio se, “Momma yɛnkyekye kurow kɛse, na yensi abantenten a ne sorɔnsorɔmmea du ɔsorosoro wɔ kurow no mu, na yennye din, na yɛanhwete wɔ asase so.”
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 Awurade sian fii ɔsoro baa fam, behuu kurow kɛse a wɔrekyekyere no ne abantenten a wɔresi no.
And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
6 Awurade kae se, “Sɛ nnipa koro a wɔka kasa baako afi ase redi saa dwuma yi a, ɛno de biribiara a wɔbɔ wɔn tirim sɛ wɔbɛyɛ no renyɛ wɔn den.
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 Mommra na yɛnkɔ asase so, na yɛnkɔtoto wɔn kasa, na obiara nnya ne kasa, sɛnea obiara nte ne yɔnko kasa.”
Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”
8 Ɛnam eyi so maa Awurade hwetee nnipa no nyinaa mu ma wɔpetee asase so nyinaa, maa wogyaee kurow kɛse no kyekyere.
And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;
9 Ɛno nti na wɔfrɛɛ kurow kɛse no Babel, efisɛ, ɛhɔ na Awurade totoo kasa baako a na wɔka wɔ wiase nyinaa saa bere no, maa wɔn kasa ahorow. Efi hɔ na Awurade hwetee nnipa no nyinaa mu ma wɔpetee asase so nyinaa.
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 Eyi ne Sem asefo ho asɛm. Nsuyiri no akyi, mfe abien no a na Sem adi mfe ɔha no, ɔwoo Arfaksad.
These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [is] a son of one hundred years, and begets Arphaxad two years after the flood.
11 Sem woo Arfaksad akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannum, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
And Shem lives after his begetting Arphaxad five hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
12 Arfaksad nso dii mfe aduasa anum no, ɔwoo Sela.
And Arphaxad has lived thirty-five years [[or one hundred and thirty-five years]], and begets Salah.
13 Arfaksad woo Sela akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannan ne abiɛsa, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
And Arphaxad lives after his begetting Salah four hundred and three years [[or four hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
14 Sela dii mfe aduasa no, ɔwoo Eber.
And Salah has lived thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Eber.
15 Sela woo Eber akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannan ne abiɛsa, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
And Salah lives after his begetting Eber four hundred and three years [[or three hundred and thirty years]], and begets sons and daughters.
16 Eber dii mfe aduasa anan no, ɔwoo Peleg.
And Eber lives thirty-four years [[or one hundred and thirty-four years]], and begets Peleg.
17 Eber woo Peleg akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannan ne aduasa, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
And Eber lives after his begetting Peleg four hundred and thirty years [[or three hundred and seventy years]], and begets sons and daughters.
18 Peleg dii mfe aduasa no, ɔwoo Reu.
And Peleg lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Reu.
19 Peleg woo Reu akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannu ne akron, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
And Peleg lives after his begetting Reu two hundred and nine years, and begets sons and daughters.
20 Reu dii mfe aduasa abien no, ɔwoo Serug.
And Reu lives thirty-two years [[or one hundred and thirty-two years]], and begets Serug.
21 Reu woo Serug akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannu ne ason, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
And Reu lives after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begets sons and daughters.
22 Serug dii mfe aduasa no, ɔwoo Nahor.
And Serug lives thirty years [[or one hundred and thirty years]], and begets Nahor.
23 Serug woo Nahor akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannu wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
And Serug lives after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begets sons and daughters.
24 Nahor dii mfe aduonu akron no, ɔwoo Tera.
And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
25 Nahor woo Tera akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ɔha ne dunkron, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
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 Tera dii mfe aduɔson no, ɔwoo Abram, Nahor ne Haran.
And Terah lives seventy years, and begets Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Eyi ne Tera asefo ho asɛm. Tera woo Abram, Nahor ne Haran. Na Haran woo Lot.
And these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah has begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran has begotten Lot;
28 Bere a Haran agya Tera te ase no, Haran wuu wɔ faako a wɔwoo no a wɔfrɛ hɔ Ur, a ɛwɔ Kaldea asase so no.
and Haran dies in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 Abram ne Nahor warewaree. Na Abram yere din de Sarai, na Nahor nso yere din de Milka a na ɔyɛ Haran babea. Saa Haran yi na ɔwoo Milka ne Iska.
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 Na Sarai yɛ obonin; na onni ba.
And Sarai is barren—she has no child.
31 Tera faa ne babarima Abram ne ne nena Lot, a ɔyɛ Haran babarima ne nʼasebea Sarai, a na ɔyɛ ne babarima Abram yere no, ne wɔn nyinaa sii mu fii Ur a ɛwɔ Kaldea asase so sɛ wɔrekɔ Kanaan asase so. Na woduu Haran no, wɔtenaa hɔ.
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 dii mfe ahannu ne anum, na owui wɔ Haran.
And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dies in Haran.
