1 Mose 11
1 Ɛberɛ bi, na nnipa a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa ka kasa korɔ.
Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
2 Saa nnipa yi tu baa apueeɛ fam no, wɔbɛtoo asase tamaa wɔ Babilonia asase so, na wɔtenaa hɔ.
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 Wɔdwennwenee ho sɛ, “Momma yɛntwa ntayaa na yɛnto mma ɛmmen yie.” Wɔde ntayaa no sii aboɔ anan na wɔde ama hyehyɛɛ ntam.
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
4 Afei, wɔdwennwenee ho bio sɛ, “Momma yɛnkyekyere kuro kɛseɛ, na yɛnsi abantenten a ne sorɔnsorɔmmea duru sorosoro wɔ kuro no mu, na yɛnnye edin, na yɛanhwete wɔ asase so.”
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
5 Awurade siane firii soro baa fam, bɛhunuu kuro kɛseɛ a wɔrekyekyere no ne abantenten a wɔresi no.
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
6 Afei, Awurade kaa sɛ, “Sɛ nnipa korɔ a wɔka kasa baako afiti aseɛ redi saa dwuma yi a, ɛnneɛ biribiara a wɔbɔ wɔn tirim sɛ wɔbɛyɛ no renyɛ wɔn den.
And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
7 Mommra na yɛnkɔ asase so, na yɛnkɔtoto wɔn kasa, na obiara nya ne kasa, sɛdeɛ obiara nte ne yɔnko kasa.”
Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
8 Ɛnam yei so maa Awurade hwetee nnipa no nyinaa mu, ma wɔpetee asase so nyinaa, ma wɔgyaee kuro kɛseɛ no kyekyere.
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 Ɛno enti na wɔfrɛɛ kuro kɛseɛ no Babel, ɛfiri sɛ, ɛhɔ na Awurade totoo kasa baako a na wɔka wɔ ewiase nyinaa saa ɛberɛ no, maa wɔn kasa hodoɔ. Ɛfiri hɔ na Awurade hwetee nnipa no nyinaa mu, ma wɔpetee asase so nyinaa.
That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
10 Yei ne Sem asefoɔ ho asɛm. Nsuyire no akyiri, mfeɛ mmienu no a na Sem adi mfeɛ ɔha no, ɔwoo Arfaksad.
This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.
11 Sem woo Arfaksad akyiri no, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ aha enum, wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 Arfaksad nso dii mfeɛ aduasa enum no, ɔwoo Sela.
When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
13 Arfaksad woo Sela no, akyire yi, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ ahanan ne mmiɛnsa, wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
14 Sela dii mfeɛ aduasa no, ɔwoo Eber.
When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
15 Sela woo Eber no, akyire yi, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ ahanan ne mmiɛnsa, wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 Eber dii mfeɛ aduasa ɛnan no, ɔwoo Peleg.
When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
17 Eber woo Peleg no, akyire yi, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ ahanan ne aduasa, wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 Peleg dii mfeɛ aduasa no, ɔwoo Reu.
When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.
19 Peleg woo Reu no, akyire yi, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ ahanu ne nkron, wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 Reu dii mfeɛ aduasa mmienu no, ɔwoo Serug.
When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.
21 Reu woo Serug no, akyire yi, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ ahanu ne nson, wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 Serug dii mfeɛ aduasa no, ɔwoo Nahor.
When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.
23 Serug woo Nahor no, akyire yi, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ ahanu wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 Nahor dii mfeɛ aduonu nkron no, ɔwoo Tera.
When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
25 Nahor woo Tera no, akyire yi, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ ɔha ne dunkron, wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 Tera dii mfeɛ aduɔson no, ɔwoo Abram, Nahor ne Haran.
When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 Yei ne Tera asefoɔ ho asɛm. Tera woo Abram, Nahor ne Haran. Na Haran woo Lot.
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
28 Ɛberɛ a Haran agya Tera te ase no, Haran wuu baabi a wɔwoo no a wɔfrɛ hɔ Ur a, ɛwɔ Kaldea asase so no.
During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 Abram ne Nahor warewareeɛ. Na Abram yere din de Sarai, na Nahor nso yere din de Milka a, na ɔyɛ Haran babaa. Saa Haran yi na ɔwowoo Milka ne Iska.
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
30 Na Sarai yɛ obonini; na ɔnni ba.
But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 Tera faa ne babarima Abram ne ne nana Lot, a ɔyɛ Haran babarima ne nʼase baa Sarai, a na ɔyɛ ne babarima Abram yere no, ne wɔn nyinaa siim firii Ur a ɛwɔ Kaldea asase so sɛ, wɔrekɔ Kanaan asase so. Na wɔduruu Haran no, wɔtenaa hɔ.
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
32 Tera dii mfeɛ ahanu ne enum, na ɔwuu wɔ Haran.
Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
