আদিপুস্তক 11
Now the whole earth used one language and had the same words.
As they journeyed in the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they settled there.
3 ৩ আর একে অপরকে বলল, “এস, আমরা ইট তৈরী করে আগুনে পোড়াই,” তাতে তাদের পাথরের পরিবর্তে ইট ও চূনের পরিবর্তে আলকাতরা ছিল।
They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick instead of stone and tar as mortar.
4 ৪ পরে তারা বলল, “এস, আমরা নিজেদের জন্য এক শহর ও আকাশকে নাগাল পেতে পারে এমন এক উঁচু বাড়ি (মিনার) তৈরী করে নিজেদের নাম বিখ্যাত করি, যদি সমস্ত পৃথিবীতে ছড়িয়ে ছিটিয়ে পড়ি।”
They said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top will reach to the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves. If we do not, we will be scattered across the surface of the whole earth.”
So Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the descendants of Adam had built.
6 ৬ আর সদাপ্রভু বললেন, “দেখ, তারা সবাই এক জাতি ও এক ভাষাবাদী; এখন এই কাজে যুক্ত হল; এর পরে যা কিছু করতে ইচ্ছা করবে, তা থেকে তারা থেমে যাবে না।
Yahweh said, “Look, they are one people with the same language, and they are beginning to do this! Soon nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.
7 ৭ এস, আমরা নিচে গিয়ে, সেই জায়গায় তাদের ভাষার ভেদ জন্মাই, যেন তারা এক জন অন্যের ভাষা বুঝতে না পারে।”
Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand each other.”
8 ৮ আর সদাপ্রভু সেখান থেকে সমস্ত পৃথিবীতে তাদেরকে ছিন্নভিন্ন করলেন এবং তারা শহর তৈরী করা থেকে থেমে গেল।
So Yahweh scattered them from there across the surface of all the earth and they stopped building the city.
9 ৯ এই জন্য সেই শহরের নাম বাবিল [ভেদ] হল; কারণ সেই জায়গায় সদাপ্রভু সমস্ত পৃথিবীর ভাষার ভেদ জন্মিয়েছিলেন এবং সেখান থেকে সদাপ্রভু তাদেরকে সমস্ত পৃথিবীতে ছিন্নভিন্ন করেছিলেন।
Therefore, its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth and from there Yahweh scattered them abroad over the surface of all the earth.
These were the descendants of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and he became the father of Arphaxad two years after the flood.
Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arphaxad. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
When Arphaxad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah.
Arphaxad lived 403 years after he became the father of Shelah. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber.
Shelah lived 403 years after he became the father of Eber. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg.
Eber lived 430 years after he became the father of Peleg. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Reu.
Peleg lived 209 years after he became the father of Reu. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug.
Reu lived 207 years after he became the father of Serug. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor.
Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
When Nahor had live twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah.
Nahor lived 119 years after he became the father of Terah. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
After Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Now these were the descendants of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran became the father of Lot.
28 ২৮ আর হারণ লোটের জন্ম দিলেন। কিন্তু হারণ নিজের বাবা তেরহের সামনে নিজের জন্মস্থান কলদীয় দেশের ঊরে প্রাণত্যাগ করলেন।
Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29 ২৯ অব্রাম ও নাহর উভয়েই বিয়ে করলেন; অব্রাহামের স্ত্রীর নাম সারী ও নাহোরের স্ত্রীর নাম মিলকা। এই স্ত্রী হারণের মেয়ে; হারণ মিলকার ও যিস্কার বাবা।
Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai and the name of Nahor's wife was Milkah, a daughter of Haran, who was the father of Milkah and Iskah.
Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 ৩১ আর তেরহ নিজের ছেলে অব্রামকে ও হারণের ছেলে নিজের নাতি লোটকে এবং অব্রাহামের স্ত্রী সারী নাম্নী ছেলের স্ত্রীকে সঙ্গে নিলেন; তাঁরা একসঙ্গে কনান দেশে যাবার জন্য কলদীয় দেশের ঊর থেকে যাত্রা করলেন; আর হারণ নগর পর্যন্ত গিয়ে সেখানে বাস করলেন।
Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of his son Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and together they left Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan. But they came to Haran and stayed there.
Terah lived 205 years and then died in Haran.
