¹ 那時，天下人的口音、言語都是一樣。

² 他們往東邊遷移的時候，在示拿地遇見一片平原，就住在那裡。

³ 他們彼此商量說：來罷！我們要作磚，把磚燒透了。他們就拿磚當石頭，又拿石漆當灰泥。

⁴ 他們說：來罷！我們要建造一座城和一座塔，塔頂通天，為要傳揚我們的名，免得我們分散在全地上。

⁵ 耶和華降臨，要看看世人所建造的城和塔。

⁶ 耶和華說：看哪，他們成為一樣的人民，都是一樣的言語，如今既作起這事來，以後他們所要作的事就沒有不成就的了。

⁷ 我們下去，在那裡變亂他們的口音，使他們的言語彼此不通。

⁸ 於是耶和華使他們從那裡分散在全地上；他們就停工，不造那城了。

⁹ 因為耶和華在那裡變亂天下人的言語，使眾人分散在全地上，所以那城名叫巴別(就是變亂的意思)。

¹⁰ 閃的後代記在下面。洪水以後二年，閃一百歲生了亞法撒。

¹¹ 閃生亞法撒之後又活了五百年，並且生兒養女。

¹² 亞法撒活到三十五歲，生了沙拉。

¹³ 亞法撒生沙拉之後又活了四百零三年，並且生兒養女。

¹⁴ 沙拉活到三十歲，生了希伯。

¹⁵ 沙拉生希伯之後又活了四百零三年，並且生兒養女。

¹⁶ 希伯活到三十四歲，生了法勒。

¹⁷ 希伯生法勒之後又活了四百三十年，並且生兒養女。

¹⁸ 法勒活到三十歲，生了拉吳。

¹⁹ 法勒生拉吳之後又活了二百零九年，並且生兒養女。

²⁰ 拉吳活到三十二歲，生了西鹿。

²¹ 拉吳生西鹿之後又活了二百零七年，並且生兒養女。

²² 西鹿活到三十歲，生了拿鶴。

²³ 西鹿生拿鶴之後又活了二百年，並且生兒養女。

²⁴ 拿鶴活到二十九歲，生了他拉。

²⁵ 拿鶴生他拉之後又活了一百一十九年，並且生兒養女。

²⁶ 他拉活到七十歲，生了亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭。

²⁷ 他拉的後代記在下面。他拉生亞伯蘭、拿鶴、哈蘭；哈蘭生羅得。

²⁸ 哈蘭死在他的本地迦勒底的吾珥，在他父親他拉之先。

²⁹ 亞伯蘭、拿鶴各娶了妻：亞伯蘭的妻子名叫撒萊；拿鶴的妻子名叫密迦，是哈蘭的女兒；哈蘭是密迦和亦迦的父親。

³⁰ 撒萊不生育，沒有孩子。

³¹ 他拉帶著他兒子亞伯蘭和他孫子哈蘭的兒子羅得，並他兒婦亞伯蘭的妻子撒萊，出了迦勒底的吾珥，要往迦南地去；他們走到哈蘭，就住在那裡。

³² 他拉共活了二百零五歲，就死在哈蘭。

¹ Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

² For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.

³ Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

⁴ For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

⁵ As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.

⁶ In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

⁷ He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

⁸ He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

⁹ It shall be said in that day, "Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!"

¹⁰ For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

¹¹ He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

¹² He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.