¹ Dies ist das Buch von Adams Geschlechtern. An dem Tage, da Gott Adam schuf, machte er ihn im Gleichnis Gottes.

² Mann und Weib (W. Männlich und weiblich) schuf er sie, und er segnete sie und gab ihnen den Namen Mensch, (H. Adam) an dem Tage, da sie geschaffen wurden. -

³ Und Adam lebte 130 Jahre und zeugte einen Sohn in seinem Gleichnis, nach seinem Bilde, und gab ihm den Namen Seth.

⁴ Und die Tage Adams, nachdem er Seth gezeugt hatte, waren 800 Jahre, und er zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

⁵ Und alle Tage Adams, die er lebte, waren 930 Jahre, und er starb. -

⁶ Und Seth lebte 105 Jahre und zeugte Enos.

⁷ Und Seth lebte, nachdem er Enos gezeugt hatte, 807 Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

⁸ Und alle Tage Seths waren 912 Jahre, und er starb. -

⁹ Und Enos lebte 90 Jahre und zeugte Kenan.

¹⁰ Und Enos lebte, nachdem er Kenan gezeugt hatte, 815 Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

¹¹ Und alle Tage Enos’ waren 905 Jahre, und er starb. -

¹² Und Kenan lebte 70 Jahre und zeugte Mahalalel.

¹³ Und Kenan lebte, nachdem er Mahalalel gezeugt hatte, 840 Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

¹⁴ Und alle Tage Kenans waren 910 Jahre, und er starb. -

¹⁵ Und Mahalalel lebte 65 Jahre und zeugte Jered.

¹⁶ Und Mahalalel lebte, nachdem er Jered gezeugt hatte, 830 Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

¹⁷ Und alle Tage Mahalalels waren 895 Jahre, und er starb. -

¹⁸ Und Jered lebte 162 Jahre und zeugte Henoch. (H. Chanok: eingeweit, belehrt)

¹⁹ Und Jered lebte, nachdem er Henoch gezeugt hatte, 800 Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

²⁰ Und alle Tage Jereds waren 962 Jahre, und er starb. -

²¹ Und Henoch lebte 65 Jahre und zeugte Methusalah.

²² Und Henoch wandelte mit Gott, nachdem er Methusalah gezeugt hatte, 300 Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

²³ Und alle Tage Henochs waren 365 Jahre.

²⁴ Und Henoch wandelte mit Gott; und er war nicht mehr, denn Gott nahm ihn hinweg. -

²⁵ Und Methusalah lebte 187 Jahre und zeugte Lamech.

²⁶ Und Methusalah lebte, nachdem er Lamech gezeugt hatte, 782 Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

²⁷ Und alle Tage Methusalahs waren 969 Jahre, und er starb. -

²⁸ Und Lamech lebte 182 Jahre und zeugte einen Sohn.

²⁹ Und er gab ihm den Namen Noah, (H. Noach: Trost, uhe) indem er sprach: Dieser wird uns trösten über unsere Arbeit und über die Mühe unserer Hände wegen des Erdbodens, den Jehova verflucht hat.

³⁰ Und Lamech lebte, nachdem er Noah gezeugt hatte, 595 Jahre und zeugte Söhne und Töchter.

³¹ Und alle Tage Lamechs waren 777 Jahre, und er starb. -

³² Und Noah war 500 Jahre alt; und Noah zeugte Sem, (H. Schem: Name, uf) Ham (H. Cham: Bedeutung ungewiß) und Japhet. (Erweiterung, Ausbreitung; vergl. Kap. 9,27)

¹ The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

² It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

³ They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

⁴ They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

⁵ Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

⁶ Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

⁷ Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

⁸ So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

⁹ Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

¹⁰ This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

¹¹ Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.

¹² Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

¹³ Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

¹⁴ Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber:

¹⁵ and Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of sons and daughters.

¹⁶ Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

¹⁷ Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of sons and daughters.

¹⁸ Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.

¹⁹ Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of sons and daughters.

²⁰ Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

²¹ Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of sons and daughters.

²² Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.

²³ Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of sons and daughters.

²⁴ Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

²⁵ Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of sons and daughters.

²⁶ Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

²⁷ Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

²⁸ Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

²⁹ Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.

³⁰ Sarai was barren. She had no child.

³¹ Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

³² The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.