ಆದಿಕಾಂಡ 11
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the 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, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
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, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto 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, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, 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 is 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] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Terah lived seventy years, and begat 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 begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
And Haran died before 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.
But 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.
