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Genesi 11

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1 OR tutta la terra era d’una favella e di un linguaggio.

2 Ed avvenne che, partendosi gli uomini di Oriente, trovarono una pianura nel paese di Sinear, e quivi si posarono.

3 E dissero l’uno all’altro: Or su, facciamo de’ mattoni, e cociamoli col fuoco. I mattoni adunque furono loro in vece di pietre, e il bitume in vece di malta.

4 Poi dissero: Or su, edifichiamoci una città, ed una torre, la cui sommità giunga fino al cielo, ed acquistiamoci fama; che talora noi non siamo dispersi sopra la faccia di tutta la terra.

5 E il Signore discese, per veder la città e la torre che i figliuoli degli uomini edificavano.

6 E il Signore disse: Ecco un medesimo popolo, ed essi tutti hanno un medesimo linguaggio, e questo è il cominciamento del lor lavoro, ed ora tutto ciò che hanno disegnato di fare, non sarà loro divietato.

7 Or su, scendiamo e confondiamo ivi la lor favella; acciocchè l’uno non intenda la favella dell’altro.

8 E il Signore li disperse di là sopra la faccia di tutta la terra; ed essi cessarono di edificar la città.

9 Perciò essa fu nominata Babilonia; perciocchè il Signore confuse quivi la favella di tutta la terra, e disperse coloro di là sopra la faccia di tutta la terra.

10 QUESTE sono le generazioni di Sem: Sem, essendo d’età di cent’anni, generò Arfacsad, due anni dopo il diluvio.

11 E Sem, dopo ch’ebbe generato Arfacsad, visse cinquecent’anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

12 Ed Arfacsad, essendo vivuto trentacinque anni, generò Sela.

13 Ed Arfacsad, dopo ch’egli ebbe generato Sela, visse quattrocentotre anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

14 E Sela, essendo vivuto trent’anni, generò Eber.

15 E Sela, dopo ch’ebbe generato Eber, visse quattrocentotre anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

16 Ed Eber, essendo vivuto trentaquattr’anni, generò Peleg.

17 Ed Eber, dopo ch’ebbe generato Peleg, visse quattrocentrenta anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

18 E Peleg, essendo vivuto trent’anni, generò Reu.

19 E Peleg, dopo ch’ebbe generato Reu, visse dugennove anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

20 E Reu, essendo vivuto trentadue anni, generò Serug.

21 E Reu, dopo che ebbe generato Serug, visse dugensette anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

22 E Serug, essendo vivuto trent’anni, generò Nahor.

23 E Serug, dopo che ebbe generato Nahor, visse dugent’anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

24 E Nahor, essendo vivuto ventinove anni, generò Tare.

25 E Nahor, dopo ch’ebbe generato Tare, visse cendiciannove anni, e generò figliuoli e figliuole.

26 E Tare, essendo vivuto settant’anni, generò Abramo, Nahor, e Haran.

27 E queste sono le generazioni di Tare: Tare generò Abramo, Nahor e Haran; e Haran generò Lot.

28 Or Haran morì in presenza di Tare suo padre, nel suo natio paese, in Ur de’ Caldei.

29 Ed Abramo e Nahor si presero delle mogli; il nome della moglie di Abramo era Sarai; e il nome della moglie di Nahor, Milca, la quale era figliuola di Haran, padre di Milca e d’Isca.

30 Or Sarai era sterile, e non avea figliuoli.

31 E Tare prese Abramo suo figliuolo, e Lot figliuol del suo figliuolo, cioè di Haran, e Sarai sua nuora, moglie di Abramo suo figliuolo; ed essi uscirono con loro fuori d’Ur de’ Caldei, per andar nel paese di Canaan; e, giunti fino in Charan, dimorarono quivi.

32 E il tempo della vita di Tare fu dugentocinque anni; poi morì in Charan.

   


To many Protestant and Evangelical Italians, the Bibles translated by Giovanni Diodati are an important part of their history. Diodati’s first Italian Bible edition was printed in 1607, and his second in 1641. He died in 1649. Throughout the 1800s two editions of Diodati’s text were printed by the British Foreign Bible Society. This is the more recent 1894 edition, translated by Claudiana.

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1279. Genesis 11

1. And the whole earth was of one lip, and its words were one.

2. And so it was that, when they travelled away from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

3. And they said, one man to the next, Come, let us make bricks, and let us burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had bitumen for clay.

4. And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, and its head in heaven; and let us make a name for ourselves, lest perhaps we are scattered over the face 1 of the whole earth.

5. And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of man were building.

6. And Jehovah said, See, they are one people, and they all have one lip, and this they have started to do; and now they will not be held back from anything which they have thought of doing.

7. Come, let us go down, and let us there confound their lip so that they do not hear each man the lip of his companion.

8. And Jehovah scattered them from there over the face 1 of the whole earth; and they left off building the city.

9. Therefore He called the name of it Babel, because there Jehovah confounded the lip of the whole earth; and from there Jehovah scattered them over the face 1 of the whole earth.

10. These are the generations of Shem: Shem was a son of a hundred years, and he begot Arpachshad two years after the Flood.

11. And Shem lived after he begot Arpachshad five hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

12. And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and he begot Shelah.

13. And Arpachshad lived after he begot Shelah four hundred and three years; and he begot sons and daughters.

14. And Shelah lived thirty years, and he begot Eber.

15. And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years; and he begot sons and daughters.

16. And Eber lived thirty-four years, and he begot Peleg.

17. And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years; and he begot sons and daughters.

18. And Peleg lived thirty years, and he begot Reu.

19. And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years; and he begot sons and daughters.

20. And Reu lived thirty-two years, and he begot Serug.

21. And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years; and he begot sons and daughters

22. And Serug lived thirty years, and he begot Nahor.

23. And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.

24. And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and he begot Terah.

25. And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years; and he begot sons and daughters.

26. And Terah lived seventy years, and he begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27. And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begot Lot.

28. And Haran died in the presence 2 of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

29. And Abram and Nahor took to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milkah, the daughter of Haran, Milkah's father and Iskah's father.

30. And Sarai was barren; she had no offspring.

31. And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son; and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. And they came as far as Haran and remained there.

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

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The subject in verses 1-9 is the first Ancient Church, which came after the Flood.

Footnotes:

1. literally, the faces

2. literally, before the faces

  
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