1 En die hele aarde het dieselfde taal gehad en een en dieselfde woorde.
2 En toe hulle wegtrek na die ooste, vind hulle 'n laagte in die land S¡near; en daar het hulle gaan woon.
3 Daarop sê hulle vir mekaar: Kom laat ons stene vorm en dit goed brand. Hulle gebruik toe die bakstene vir bousteen en die lymgrond vir klei.
4 En hulle sê: Kom, laat ons vir ons 'n stad bou en 'n toring waarvan die spits tot aan die hemel reik; en laat ons vir ons 'n naam maak, sodat ons nie oor die hele aarde verstrooid raak nie.
5 Toe daal die HERE neer om die stad en die toring te besien waaraan die mensekinders gebou het.
6 En die HERE sê: Daar is hulle nou een volk en het almal een taal! En dit is net die begin van hulle onderneming: nou sal niks vir hulle meer onmoontlik wees van wat hulle van plan is om te doen nie.
7 Kom, laat Ons neerdaal en hulle taal daar verwar, sodat die een die taal van die ander nie kan verstaan nie.
8 So het die HERE hulle dan daarvandaan oor die hele aarde verstrooi; en hulle het opgehou om die stad te bou.
9 Daarom het hulle dit Babel genoem, want daar het die HERE die taal van die hele aarde verwar, en daarvandaan het die HERE hulle oor die hele aarde verstrooi.
10 Dit is die stamboom van Sem: Toe Sem honderd jaar oud was, het hy die vader van Arpagsad geword, twee jaar n die vloed.
11 En Sem het n die geboorte van Arpagsad nog vyf honderd jaar gelewe. En hy het seuns en dogters gehad.
12 Toe Arpagsad vyf en dertig jaar oud was, het hy die vader van Selag geword.
13 En Arpagsad het n die geboorte van Selag nog vier honderd en drie jaar gelewe. En hy het seuns en dogters gehad.
14 Toe Selag dertig jaar oud was, het hy die vader van Heber geword.
15 En Selag het n die geboorte van Heber nog vier honderd en drie jaar gelewe. En hy het seuns en dogters gehad.
16 Toe Heber vier en dertig jaar oud was, het hy die vader van Peleg geword.
17 En Heber het n die geboorte van Peleg nog vier honderd en dertig jaar gelewe. En hy het seuns en dogters gehad.
18 Toe Peleg dertig jaar oud was, het hy die vader van Rehu geword.
19 En Peleg het n die geboorte van Rehu nog twee honderd en nege jaar gelewe. En hy het seuns en dogters gehad.
20 Toe Rehu twee en dertig jaar oud was, het hy die vader van Serug geword.
21 En Rehu het n die geboorte van Serug nog twee honderd en sewe jaar gelewe. En hy het seuns en dogters gehad.
22 Toe Serug dertig jaar oud was, het hy die vader van Nahor geword.
23 En Serug het n die geboorte van Nahor twee honderd jaar gelewe. En hy het seuns en dogters gehad.
24 Toe Nahor nege en twintig jaar oud was, het hy die vader van Tera geword.
25 En Nahor het n die geboorte van Tera nog honderd en negentien jaar gelewe. En hy het seuns en dogters gehad.
26 Toe Tera sewentig jaar oud was, het hy die vader geword van Abram, Nahor en Haran.
27 En dit is die stamboom van Tera: Tera het die vader geword van Abram, Nahor en Haran, en Haran van Lot.
28 En Haran het gesterwe terwyl sy vader Tera nog geleef het, in sy geboorteland, in Ur van die Chaldeërs.
29 En Abram en Nahor het vir hulle vroue geneem. Die naam van Abram se vrou was Sarai, en die naam van Nahor se vrou was Milka, die dogter van Haran, die vader van Milka en die vader van Jiska.
30 En Sarai was onvrugbaar, sy het geen kind gehad nie.
31 En Tera het sy seun Abram geneem en Lot, die seun van Haran, sy kleinseun, en Sarai, sy skoondogter, die vrou van sy seun Abram, en die het saam met hulle uit Ur van die Chaldeërs getrek om na die land Kana„n te gaan. En hulle het tot by Haran gekom en daar gaan woon.
32 En die dae van Tera was twee honderd en vyf jaar, en Tera het in Haran gesterwe.
1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
2 And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.
3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
4 And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
6 And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do: and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.
7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.
9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;
11 And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
12 And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:
13 And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
14 And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:
15 And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:
16 And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:
17 And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:
18 And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:
19 And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:
20 And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:
21 And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:
22 And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:
23 And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
24 And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:
25 And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:
26 And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27 These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.
28 And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.
29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.
30 And Sarai had no child.
31 And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.
32 And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.