1 Mose 11
1 Ɛberɛ bi, na nnipa a wɔwɔ asase so nyinaa ka kasa korɔ.
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2 Saa nnipa yi tu baa apueeɛ fam no, wɔbɛtoo asase tamaa wɔ Babilonia asase so, na wɔtenaa hɔ.
It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they 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 burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for 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.”
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 Awurade siane firii soro baa fam, bɛhunuu kuro kɛseɛ a wɔrekyekyere no ne abantenten a wɔresi no.
And God came down to see the city and the tower, that humankind was 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 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 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 there confuse their language, that they may 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.
Then God scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth; so they ceased 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.
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 Yei ne Sem asefoɔ ho asɛm. Nsuyire no akyiri, mfeɛ mmienu no a na Sem adi mfeɛ ɔha no, ɔwoo Arfaksad.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11 Sem woo Arfaksad akyiri no, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ aha enum, wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.
12 Arfaksad nso dii mfeɛ aduasa enum no, ɔwoo Sela.
And Arpachshad lived one hundred and thirty-five years and became the father of Kenan.
13 Arfaksad woo Sela no, akyire yi, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ ahanan ne mmiɛnsa, wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
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 Sela dii mfeɛ aduasa no, ɔwoo Eber.
Shelah lived one hundred and thirty years, and 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 Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and fathered sons and daughters.
16 Eber dii mfeɛ aduasa ɛnan no, ɔwoo Peleg.
Eber lived one hundred and thirty-four years, and 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.
Eber lived three hundred and seventy years after he became the father of Peleg, and fathered sons and daughters.
18 Peleg dii mfeɛ aduasa no, ɔwoo Reu.
Peleg lived one hundred and thirty years, and 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.
Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and fathered sons and daughters.
20 Reu dii mfeɛ aduasa mmienu no, ɔwoo Serug.
Reu lived one hundred and thirty-two years, and 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.
Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and fathered sons and daughters.
22 Serug dii mfeɛ aduasa no, ɔwoo Nahor.
Serug lived one hundred and thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.
23 Serug woo Nahor no, akyire yi, ɔtenaa ase mfeɛ ahanu wowoo mmammarima ne mmammaa bi nso kaa ho.
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.
24 Nahor dii mfeɛ aduonu nkron no, ɔwoo Tera.
Nahor lived seventy-nine years, and 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.
Nahor lived one hundred and twenty-nine years after he became the father of Terah, and fathered sons and daughters.
26 Tera dii mfeɛ aduɔson no, ɔwoo Abram, Nahor ne Haran.
Terah lived seventy years, and 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.
Now these are the generations 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.
And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur Kasdim.
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. 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 Na Sarai yɛ obonini; na ɔnni ba.
And Sarai was barren. She had no child.
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 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 dii mfeɛ ahanu ne enum, na ɔwuu wɔ Haran.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. And Terah died in Haran.
