1 Og hele jorden hadde ett språk og ett tungemål.

And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

2 Og det skjedde at da de vandret mot øst, kom de til en slette i landet Shinar, og der bosatte de seg.

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 Og de sa til hverandre: Kom, la oss lage teglstein og brenne dem godt. Og de brukte teglsteiner i stedet for stein, og jordas leire som bindemiddel.

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 Og de sa: Kom, la oss bygge en by og et tårn som når opp til himmelen, og la oss gjøre oss et stort navn, så vi ikke blir spredt over hele jorden.

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 Og Herren kom ned for å se byen og tårnet som menneskene bygde.

And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

6 Og Herren sa: Se, de er ett folk og har alle ett språk, og dette er bare begynnelsen på det de kan gjøre. Nå vil ingenting hindre dem i å gjøre alt de har satt seg fore.

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 Kom, la oss gå ned og forvirre språket deres, så de ikke forstår hverandre.

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 Så Herren spredte dem fra det stedet over hele jorden, og de sluttet å bygge byen.

So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.

9 Derfor ble den kalt Babel, fordi Herren der forvirret språket over hele jorden, og derfra spredte Herren dem ut over hele jorden.

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 Dette er slektshistorien til Sem. Sem var hundre år gammel da han fikk sønnen Arpaksjad, to år etter vannflommen.

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 Etter Arpaksjads fødsel levde Sem i fem hundre år og fikk sønner og døtre.

And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

12 Arpaksjad var trettifem år gammel da han fikk sønnen Sjelah.

And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:

13 Etter Sjelahs fødsel levde Arpaksjad i fire hundre og tre år og fikk sønner og døtre.

And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

14 Sjelah var tretti år gammel da han fikk sønnen Eber.

And Shelah was thirty years old when he became the father of Eber:

15 Etter Ebers fødsel levde Sjelah i fire hundre og tre år og fikk sønner og døtre.

And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:

16 Eber var trettifire år gammel da han fikk sønnen Peleg.

And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:

17 Etter Pelegs fødsel levde Eber i fire hundre og tretti år og fikk sønner og døtre.

And after the birth of Peleg, Eber went on living for four hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:

18 Peleg var tretti år gammel da han fikk sønnen Reu.

And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:

19 Etter Reus fødsel levde Peleg i to hundre og ni år og fikk sønner og døtre.

And after the birth of Reu, Peleg went on living for two hundred and nine years, and had sons and daughters:

20 Reu var trettito år gammel da han fikk sønnen Serug.

And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:

21 Etter Serugs fødsel levde Reu i to hundre og sju år og fikk sønner og døtre.

And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

22 Serug var tretti år gammel da han fikk sønnen Nakhor.

And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:

23 Etter Nakhors fødsel levde Serug i to hundre år og fikk sønner og døtre.

And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

24 Nakhor var tjueni år gammel da han fikk sønnen Tarah.

And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

25 Etter Tarahs fødsel levde Nakhor i hundre og nitten år og fikk sønner og døtre.

And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:

26 Tarah var sytti år gammel da han ble far til Abram, Nakhor og Haran.

And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 Dette er Tarahs slektshistorie: Tarah var far til Abram, Nakhor og Haran; og Haran var far til Lot.

These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

28 Haran døde mens hans far Tarah fortsatt levde, i hans fødeland, Ur i Kaldea.

And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

29 Abram og Nakhor tok seg koner; Abrams kone het Sarai, og Nakhors kone het Milka, datter av Haran, far til både Milka og Jiska.

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 Og Sarai var barnløs.

And Sarai had no child.

31 Tarah tok med seg Abram, sin sønn, Lot, sønnen til Haran, og Sarai, sin svigerdatter, Abrams kone, og de dro fra Ur i Kaldea for å dra til Kanaans land. De kom til Haran og bosatte seg der en tid.

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 Dagene i Tarahs liv var to hundre og fem år, og Tarah døde i Haran.

And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.