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- Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
- It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
- They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
- They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
- The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
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- さて, 全地は 一つのことば, 一つの 話しことばであった.
- そのころ, 人¿は 東のほうから 移動して 來て, シヌアル の 地に 平地を 見つけ, そこに 定住した.
- 彼らは 互いに 言った. 「さあ, れんがを 作ってよく 燒こう. 」彼らは 石の 代わりにれんがを 用い, 粘土の 代わりに =靑を 用いた.
- そのうちに 彼らは 言うようになった. 「さあ, われわれは 町を 建て, 頂が 天に 屆く 塔を 建て, 名をあげよう. われわれが 全地に 散らされるといけないから. 」
- そのとき 主は 人間の 建てた 町と 塔をご 覽になるために 降りて 來られた.
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- The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
- "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
- So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
- Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
- These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;
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- 主は 仰せになった. 「彼らがみな, 一つの 民, 一つのことばで, このようなことをし 始めたのなら, 今や 彼らがしようと 思うことで, とどめられることはない.
- さあ, 降りて 行って, そこでの 彼らのことばを 混亂させ, 彼らが 互いにことばが 通じないようにしよう. 」
- こうして 主は 人¿を, そこから 地の 全面に 散らされたので, 彼らはその 町を 建てるのをやめた.
- それゆえ, その 町の 名は バベル と 呼ばれた. 主が 全地のことばをそこで 混亂させたから, すなわち, 主が 人¿をそこから 地の 全面に 散らしたからである.
- これは セム の 歷史である. セム は 百歲のとき, すなわち 大洪水の 二年後に アルパクシャデ を 生んだ.
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- and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.
- Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah;
- and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.
- Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber;
- and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.
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- セム は アルパクシャデ を 生んで 後, 五百年生き, 息子, 娘たちを 生んだ.
- アルパクシャデ は 三十五年生きて, シェラフ を 生んだ.
- アルパクシャデ は シェラフ を 生んで 後, 四百三年生き, 息子, 娘たちを 生んだ.
- シェラフ は 三十年生きて, エベル を 生んだ.
- シェラフ は エベル を 生んで 後, 四百三年生き, 息子, 娘たちを 生んだ.
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- Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg;
- and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters.
- Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu;
- and Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and he had other sons and daughters.
- Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug;
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- エベル は 三十四年生きて, ペレグ を 生んだ.
- エベル は ペレグ を 生んで 後, 四百三十年生き, 息子, 娘たちを 生んだ.
- ペレグ は 三十年生きて, レウ を 生んだ.
- ペレグ は レウ を 生んで 後, 二百九年生き, 息子, 娘たちを 生んだ.
- レウ は 三十二年生きて, セルグ を 生んだ.
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- and Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and daughters.
- Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor;
- and Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters.
- Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah;
- and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters.
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- レウ は セルグ を 生んで 後, 二百七年生き, 息子, 娘たちを 生んだ.
- セルグ は 三十年生きて, ナホル を 生んだ.
- セルグ は ナホル を 生んで 後, 二百年生き, 息子, 娘たちを 生んだ.
- ナホル は 二十九年生きて, テラ を 生んだ.
- ナホル は テラ を 生んで 後, 百十九年生き, 息子, 娘たちを 生んだ.
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- Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
- Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot.
- Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
- 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.
- Sarai was barren; she had no child.
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- テラ は 七十年生きて, アブラム と ナホル と ハラン を 生んだ.
- これは テラ の 歷史である. テラ は アブラム , ナホル , ハラン を 生み, ハラン は ロト を 生んだ.
- ハラン はその 父 テラ の 存命中, 彼の 生まれ 故鄕である カルデヤ 人の ウル で 死んだ.
- アブラム と ナホル は 妻をめとった. アブラム の 妻の 名は サライ であった. ナホル の 妻の 名は ミルカ といって, ハラン の 娘であった. ハラン は ミルカ の 父で, また イスカ の 父であった.
- サライ は 不妊の 女で, 子どもがなかった.
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- Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.
- The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.
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- テラ は, その 息子 アブラム と, ハラン の 子で 自分の 孫の ロト と, 息子の アブラム の 妻である 嫁の サライ とを 伴い, 彼らは カナン の 地に 行くために, カルデヤ 人の ウル からいっしょに 出かけた. しかし, 彼らは カラン まで 來て, そこに 住みついた.
- テラ の 一生は 二百五年であった. テラ は カラン で 死んだ.
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