Chapter 11

11:1

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

那时，天下人的口音，言语都是一样的。

11:2

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.

他们往东边迁移的时候，在Shinar预见一片平原，就住在那里。

11:3

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

他们彼此商量说，来吧，我们要做砖，把砖烧透了。他们就拿砖当石头，又拿石漆当灰泥。

11:4

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.

他们说，来吧，我们要建造一座城和一座塔，塔顶通天，为要传扬我们的名，免得我们分散在全地上。

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咸吃萝卜淡操心，合着我得学洋文是你们干的

11:5

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

耶和华降临，要看看世人建造的城和塔。

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"builded" 是一个古英语用法，参考这篇文章。

11:6

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.

耶和华说，看哪，他们成为一样的人民，都是一样的言语，如今既做起这事来，以后他们要做的事就没有不能成的了。

11:7

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

我们下去，在那里变乱他们的口音，使他们的言语彼此不通。

11:8

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

于是，耶和华使他们从那里分散在全地上。他们就停工，不造那城了。

11:9

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.

因为耶和华在那里变乱了天下人的言语，使众人分散在全地上，所以那城叫Babel（这个词就是变乱的意思）。

11:10

boring

从这里往下又开始列族谱了，从此之后所有的族谱部分一概跳过，参照Chapter10中的族谱树。

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

11:11

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

11:12

And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

11:13

And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

11:14

And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

11:15

And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

11:16

And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

11:17

And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

11:18

And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

11:19

And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

11:20

And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

11:21

And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

11:22

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

11:23

And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

11:24

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

11:25

And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

11:26

And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

11:27

Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

11:28

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

11:29

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.

11:30

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

11:31

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.

11:32

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.