¹ Erat autem terra labii unius, et sermonum eorumdem.

² Cumque proficiscerentur de oriente, invenerunt campum in terra Senaar, et habitaverunt in eo.

³ Dixitque alter ad proximum suum : Venite, faciamus lateres, et coquamus eos igni. Habueruntque lateres pro saxis, et bitumen pro cæmento :

⁴ et dixerunt : Venite, faciamus nobis civitatem et turrim, cujus culmen pertingat ad cælum : et celebremus nomen nostrum antequam dividamur in universas terras.

⁵ Descendit autem Dominus ut videret civitatem et turrim, quam ædificabant filii Adam,

⁶ et dixit : Ecce, unus est populus, et unum labium omnibus : cœperuntque hoc facere, nec desistent a cogitationibus suis, donec eas opere compleant.

⁷ Venite igitur, descendamus, et confundamus ibi linguam eorum, ut non audiat unusquisque vocem proximi sui.

⁸ Atque ita divisit eos Dominus ex illo loco in universas terras, et cessaverunt ædificare civitatem.

⁹ Et idcirco vocatum est nomen ejus Babel, quia ibi confusum est labium universæ terræ : et inde dispersit eos Dominus super faciem cunctarum regionum.

¹⁰ Hæ sunt generationes Sem : Sem erat centum annorum quando genuit Arphaxad, biennio post diluvium.

¹¹ Vixitque Sem, postquam genuit Arphaxad, quingentis annis : et genuit filios et filias.

¹² Porro Arphaxad vixit triginta quinque annis, et genuit Sale.

¹³ Vixitque Arphaxad, postquam genuit Sale, trecentis tribus annis : et genuit filios et filias.

¹⁴ Sale quoque vixit triginta annis, et genuit Heber.

¹⁵ Vixitque Sale, postquam genuit Heber, quadringentis tribus annis : et genuit filios et filias.

¹⁶ Vixit autem Heber triginta quatuor annis, et genuit Phaleg.

¹⁷ Et vixit Heber postquam genuit Phaleg, quadringentis triginta annis : et genuit filios et filias.

¹⁸ Vixit quoque Phaleg triginta annis, et genuit Reu.

¹⁹ Vixitque Phaleg, postquam genuit Reu, ducentis novem annis : et genuit filios et filias.

²⁰ Vixit autem Reu triginta duobus annis, et genuit Sarug.

²¹ Vixit quoque Reu, postquam genuit Sarug, ducentis septem annis : et genuit filios et filias.

²² Vixit vero Sarug triginta annis, et genuit Nachor.

²³ Vixitque Sarug, postquam genuit Nachor, ducentis annis : et genuit filios et filias.

²⁴ Vixit autem Nachor viginti novem annis, et genuit Thare.

²⁵ Vixitque Nachor, postquam genuit Thare, centum decem et novem annis : et genuit filios et filias.

²⁶ Vixitque Thare septuaginta annis, et genuit Abram, et Nachor, et Aran.

²⁷ Hæ sunt autem generationes Thare : Thare genuit Abram, Nachor et Aran. Porro Aran genuit Lot.

²⁸ Mortuusque est Aran ante Thare patrem suum, in terra nativitatis suæ, in Ur Chaldæorum.

²⁹ Duxerunt autem Abram et Nachor uxores : nomen uxoris Abram, Sarai : et nomen uxoris Nachor, Melcha filia Aran, patris Melchæ, et patris Jeschæ.

³⁰ Erat autem Sarai sterilis, nec habebat liberos.

³¹ Tulit itaque Thare Abram filium suum, et Lot filium Aran, filium filii sui, et Sarai nurum suam, uxorem Abram filii sui, et eduxit eos de Ur Chaldæorum, ut irent in terram Chanaan : veneruntque usque Haran, et habitaverunt ibi.

³² Et facti sunt dies Thare ducentorum quinque annorum, et mortuus est in Haran.

¹ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn't the shepherds feed the sheep?

³ You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.

⁴ You haven't strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.

⁵ They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

⁶ My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

⁷ Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

⁸ As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;

⁹ therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

¹⁰ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

¹¹ For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

¹² As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

¹³ I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

¹⁴ I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.

¹⁵ I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁶ I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

¹⁷ As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.

¹⁸ Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?

¹⁹ As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

²⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

²¹ Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;

²² therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.