1 Mose 11
1 Bere bi, na nnipa a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa ka kasa koro.
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2 Saa nnipa yi tu baa apuei fam no, wɔbɛtoo asase tamaa wɔ Babilonia asase so, na wɔtenaa hɔ.
As they travelled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
3 Wosisee wɔn ho wɔn ho se, “Momma yentwa ntayaa na yɛnto mma ɛmmen yiye.” Na wɔde ntayaa ne ama na esi adan.
They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar 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.”
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
5 Awurade sian fii ɔsoro baa fam, behuu kurow kɛse a wɔrekyekyere no ne abantenten a wɔresi no.
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men 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.
The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
7 Mommra na yɛnkɔ asase so, na yɛnkɔtoto wɔn kasa, na obiara nnya ne kasa, sɛnea obiara nte ne yɔnko kasa.”
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
8 Ɛnam eyi so maa Awurade hwetee nnipa no nyinaa mu ma wɔpetee asase so nyinaa, maa wogyaee kurow kɛse no kyekyere.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building 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 its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface 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.
This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11 Sem woo Arfaksad akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannum, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
12 Arfaksad nso dii mfe aduasa anum no, ɔwoo Sela.
Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.
13 Arfaksad woo Sela akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannan ne abiɛsa, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
14 Sela dii mfe aduasa no, ɔwoo Eber.
Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.
15 Sela woo Eber akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannan ne abiɛsa, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
16 Eber dii mfe aduasa anan no, ɔwoo Peleg.
Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.
17 Eber woo Peleg akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannan ne aduasa, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
18 Peleg dii mfe aduasa no, ɔwoo Reu.
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.
19 Peleg woo Reu akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannu ne akron, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
20 Reu dii mfe aduasa abien no, ɔwoo Serug.
Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.
21 Reu woo Serug akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannu ne ason, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
22 Serug dii mfe aduasa no, ɔwoo Nahor.
Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
23 Serug woo Nahor akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ahannu wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
24 Nahor dii mfe aduonu akron no, ɔwoo Tera.
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
25 Nahor woo Tera akyi no ɔtenaa ase mfe ɔha ne dunkron, wowoo mmabarima ne mmabea bi nso kaa ho.
Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
26 Tera dii mfe aduɔson no, ɔwoo Abram, Nahor ne Haran.
Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Eyi ne Tera asefo ho asɛm. Tera woo Abram, Nahor ne Haran. Na Haran woo Lot.
Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of 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.
Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.
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.
Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.
30 Na Sarai yɛ obonin; na onni ba.
Sarai was barren. She had 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.
Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.
32 Tera dii mfe ahannu ne anum, na owui wɔ Haran.
The days of Terah were two hundred and five years. Terah died in Haran.
