¹ `Unto thy mouth -- a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.

² To Me they cry, `My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.'

³ Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.

⁴ They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.

⁵ Cast off hath thy calf, O Samaria, Burned hath Mine anger against them, Till when are they not capable of purity?

⁶ For even it [is] of Israel; an artificer made it, And it [is] not God, For the calf of Samaria is fragments!

⁷ For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.

⁸ Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.

⁹ For they -- they have gone up [to] Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself [is] Ephraim, They have hired lovers!

¹⁰ Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.

¹¹ Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.

¹² I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

¹³ The sacrifices of Mine offerings! They sacrifice flesh, and they eat, Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin, They -- [to] Egypt they turn back.

¹⁴ And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!

¹ 那时，天下人的口音、言语都是一样。

² 他们往东边迁移的时候，在示拿地遇见一片平原，就住在那里。

³ 他们彼此商量说：来罢！我们要作砖，把砖烧透了。他们就拿砖当石头，又拿石漆当灰泥。

⁴ 他们说：来罢！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。

⁵ 耶和华降临，要看看世人所建造的城和塔。

⁶ 耶和华说：看哪，他们成为一样的人民，都是一样的言语，如今既作起这事来，以後他们所要作的事就没有不成就的了。

⁷ 我们下去，在那里变乱他们的口音，使他们的言语彼此不通。

⁸ 於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。

⁹ 因为耶和华在那里变乱天下人的言语，使众人分散在全地上，所以那城名叫巴别(就是变乱的意思)。

¹⁰ 闪的後代记在下面。洪水以後二年，闪一百岁生了亚法撒。

¹¹ 闪生亚法撒之後又活了五百年，并且生儿养女。

¹² 亚法撒活到三十五岁，生了沙拉。

¹³ 亚法撒生沙拉之後又活了四百零三年，并且生儿养女。

¹⁴ 沙拉活到三十岁，生了希伯。

¹⁵ 沙拉生希伯之後又活了四百零三年，并且生儿养女。

¹⁶ 希伯活到三十四岁，生了法勒。

¹⁷ 希伯生法勒之後又活了四百三十年，并且生儿养女。

¹⁸ 法勒活到三十岁，生了拉吴。

¹⁹ 法勒生拉吴之後又活了二百零九年，并且生儿养女。

²⁰ 拉吴活到三十二岁，生了西鹿。

²¹ 拉吴生西鹿之後又活了二百零七年，并且生儿养女。

²² 西鹿活到三十岁，生了拿鹤。

²³ 西鹿生拿鹤之後又活了二百年，并且生儿养女。

²⁴ 拿鹤活到二十九岁，生了他拉。

²⁵ 拿鹤生他拉之後又活了一百一十九年，并且生儿养女。

²⁶ 他拉活到七十岁，生了亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰。

²⁷ 他拉的後代记在下面。他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰；哈兰生罗得。

²⁸ 哈兰死在他的本地迦勒底的吾珥，在他父亲他拉之先。

²⁹ 亚伯兰、拿鹤各娶了妻：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 撒莱不生育，没有孩子。

³¹ 他拉带着他儿子亚伯兰和他孙子哈兰的儿子罗得，并他儿妇亚伯兰的妻子撒莱，出了迦勒底的吾珥，要往迦南地去；他们走到哈兰，就住在那里。

³² 他拉共活了二百零五岁，就死在哈兰。