ಆದಿಕಾಂಡ 11
And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 ೩ “ಅವರೆಲ್ಲರೂ ಬನ್ನಿ, ನಾವು ಇಟ್ಟಿಗೆಗಳನ್ನು ಮಾಡಿ, ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಸುಡೋಣ,” ಎಂದು ಅವರು ಒಬ್ಬರಿಗೊಬ್ಬರು ಮಾತನಾಡಿಕೊಂಡರು. ಅವರು ಕಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಇಟ್ಟಿಗೆಯನ್ನು, ಸುಣ್ಣಕ್ಕೆ ಬದಲಾಗಿ ಜೇಡಿಮಣ್ಣನ್ನು ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಿದರು.
And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4 ೪ ಅವರು, “ಬನ್ನಿರಿ, ಒಂದು ಪಟ್ಟಣವನ್ನು ಕಟ್ಟೋಣ, ಆಕಾಶವನ್ನು ಮುಟ್ಟುವ ಒಂದು ಗೋಪುರವನ್ನೂ ಕಟ್ಟಿ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಹೆಸರನ್ನು ಸಂಪಾದಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳೋಣ; ಹೀಗೆ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ಭೂಮಿಯ ಮೇಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಚದರಿಹೋಗುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಆಸ್ಪದವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ” ಎಂದು ತಮ್ಮತಮ್ಮೊಳಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿಕೊಂಡರು.
And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 ೬ ನೋಡಿದ ಮೇಲೆ ಯೆಹೋವನು, “ಇವರು ಒಂದೇ ಜನಾಂಗ; ಇವರೆಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಒಂದೇ ಭಾಷೆ. ಪ್ರಾರಂಭದಲ್ಲೇ ಇವರು ಇಷ್ಟು ದೊಡ್ಡ ಯೋಜನೆಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಒಟ್ಟಾಗಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಲಾರಂಭಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇನ್ನು ಮುಂದೆ ಇವರು ಏನು ಮಾಡಲು ಉದ್ದೇಶಿಸಿದರೂ ಇವರಿಗೆ ಯಾವುದೂ ಅಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.
And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'
8 ೮ ಯೆಹೋವನು ಅದೇ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಅವರನ್ನು ಭೂಲೋಕದಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಚದರಿಸಿ ಬಿಟ್ಟನು. ಅವರು ಆ ಪಟ್ಟಣ ಕಟ್ಟುವುದನ್ನು ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಿಬಿಟ್ಟರು.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
9 ೯ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಲೋಕದ ಭಾಷೆಯನ್ನು ಯೆಹೋವನು ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಗಲಿಬಿಲಿ ಮಾಡಿ, ಅವರನ್ನು ಭೂಲೋಕದಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಚದರಿಸಿದ್ದರಿಂದ ಆ ಪಟ್ಟಣಕ್ಕೆ ಬಾಬೆಲ್ (ದೇವರ ಬಾಗಿಲು) ಎಂಬ ಹೆಸರಾಯಿತು.
Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arpachshad two years after the flood.
And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begot Shelah.
And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg.
And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.
And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug.
And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.
And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
And Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 ೨೭ ತೆರಹನ ವಂಶದವರ ಚರಿತ್ರೆಯು: ತೆರಹನು ಅಬ್ರಾಮ, ನಾಹೋರ್, ಹಾರಾನ್ ಎಂಬುವರನ್ನು ಪಡೆದನು. ಹಾರಾನನು ಲೋಟನನ್ನು ಪಡೆದನು.
Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.
And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
29 ೨೯ ಅಬ್ರಾಮನೂ ನಾಹೋರನೂ ಮದುವೆಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡರು. ಅಬ್ರಾಮನ ಹೆಂಡತಿಯ ಹೆಸರು ಸಾರಯಳು, ನಾಹೋರನ ಹೆಂಡತಿಯ ಹೆಸರು ಮಿಲ್ಕಾ. ಈಕೆಯು ಹಾರಾನನ ಮಗಳು; ಹಾರಾನನು ಮಿಲ್ಕಳಿಗೂ ಇಸ್ಕಳಿಗೂ ತಂದೆ.
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
And Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 ೩೧ ತೆರಹನು ತನ್ನ ಮಗನಾದ ಅಬ್ರಾಮನನ್ನೂ, ತನಗೆ ಮೊಮ್ಮಗನೂ, ಹಾರಾನನಿಗೆ ಮಗನೂ ಆಗಿರುವ ಲೋಟನನ್ನೂ, ತನಗೆ ಸೊಸೆಯೂ ಅಬ್ರಾಮನಿಗೆ ಹೆಂಡತಿಯೂ ಆಗಿರುವ ಸಾರಯಳನ್ನೂ ಕರೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಕಾನಾನ್ ದೇಶಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗಬೇಕೆಂದು ಕಲ್ದೀಯರ ಊರ್ ಎಂಬ ಪಟ್ಟಣವನ್ನು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಅವರು ಹಾರಾನ ಪಟ್ಟಣಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದು ಅಲ್ಲೇ ವಾಸಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡರು.
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
