Genesis 11

1 Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

1 那时，天下人都用同一种语言，讲同一种话。

2 And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

2 人们向东迁移时，在示拿地区找到一处平原，定居下来。

3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

3 他们彼此商量说：“来呀，我们制作砖，把砖烧透吧。”他们用砖作石块，用柏油作灰泥来造塔，

4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

4 说：“来吧，让我们造一座城和一座高耸入云的塔，这样我们可以为自己扬名，不致分散在普天之下。”

5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

5 耶和华下来察看人建造的城和塔。

6 And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

6 耶和华说：“看啊，他们同属一个民族，都用同一种语言，现在就开始做这样的事，如果继续下去，他们会为所欲为。

7 Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

7 来吧，我们下去变乱他们的语言，使他们彼此言语不通。”

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

8 于是，耶和华把他们从那里分散到普天之下，他们便停止建城了。

9 That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

9 因此，人称那城为巴别，因为耶和华在那里变乱了世人的语言，把他们分散到普天之下。

10 This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

10 以下是闪的后代。 洪水过后两年，闪一百岁时生亚法撒，

11 And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

11 之后又活了五百年，生儿育女。

12 When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.

12 亚法撒三十五岁时生沙拉，

13 And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

13 之后又活了四百零三年，生儿育女。

14 When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.

14 沙拉三十岁时生希伯，

15 And after he had become the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

15 之后又活了四百零三年，生儿育女。

16 When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.

16 希伯三十四岁时生法勒，

17 And after he had become the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

17 之后又活了四百三十年，生儿育女。

18 When Peleg was 30 years old, he became the father of Reu.

18 法勒三十岁时生拉吴，

19 And after he had become the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

19 之后又活了二百零九年，生儿育女。

20 When Reu was 32 years old, he became the father of Serug.

20 拉吴三十二岁时生西鹿，

21 And after he had become the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

21 之后又活了二百零七年，生儿育女。

22 When Serug was 30 years old, he became the father of Nahor.

22 西鹿三十岁时生拿鹤，

23 And after he had become the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

23 之后又活了二百年，生儿育女。

24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

24 拿鹤二十九岁时生他拉，

25 And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

25 之后又活了一百一十九年，生儿育女。

26 When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

26 他拉七十岁后，生了亚伯兰、拿鹤和哈兰。

27 This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

27 以下是他拉的后代。 他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤和哈兰，哈兰生罗得。

28 During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

28 哈兰比他父亲他拉先去世，他死在自己的家乡迦勒底的吾珥。

29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

29 亚伯兰和拿鹤都娶了妻子，亚伯兰的妻子名叫撒莱，拿鹤的妻子名叫密迦，是哈兰的女儿。哈兰是密迦和亦迦的父亲。

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

30 撒莱不能生育，没有孩子。

31 And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.

31 他拉带着儿子亚伯兰、孙子——哈兰的儿子罗得、儿媳妇——亚伯兰的妻子撒莱，离开迦勒底的吾珥前往迦南，他们来到哈兰，在那里定居下来。

32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.

32 他拉在那里去世，享年二百零五岁 。