1279# 经文
1全地一个口音，一种话语。2他们从东方出发，在示拿地遇见一片谷地，就住在那里。3一个人对他的同伴说：“来吧！我们要做砖，把砖烧透了。”他们就拿砖当石，石漆当泥。4他们说：“来吧！我们要为自己建造城和塔；它的头要在天上；让我们为自己造一个名，免得我们被分散在整个地面上。”5耶和华降临来看人的儿子们所建造的城和塔。6耶和华说：“看哪，他们成为一样的人民，都是一样的口音，如今既做起这事来，以后他们所要做的事就没有不成就的了。7来！我们下去，在那里变乱他们的口音，使他们听不懂各人同伴的口音。8于是耶和华。使他们从那里分散在整个地面上；他们就停工，不造那城了。9所以称它的名为巴别，因为耶和华变乱了全地的口音，使他们从那里分散到整个地面上。10这些是闪的后代；洪水以后二年，闪一百岁生了亚法撒。11闪生亚法撒之后又活了五百年；并且生了儿子和女儿。12亚法撒活到三十五岁年，生了沙位。13亚法撒生沙拉之后又活了四百零三年，并且生了儿子和女儿。14沙拉活到三十岁，生了希伯。15沙拉生希伯之后又活了四百零三年，并生了儿子和女儿。16希伯活到三十四岁，生了法勒。17希伯生法勒之后又活了四百三十年，并生了儿子和女儿。18法勒活到三十岁，生了拉吴。19法勒生拉吴之后又活了二百零九年，并生了儿子和女儿。20拉吴活到三十二岁，生了西鹿。21拉吴生西鹿之后又活了二百零七年，并生了儿子和女儿。22西鹿活到三十岁，生了拿鹤。23西鹿生拿鹤之后又活了二百年，并生了儿子和女儿。24拿鹤活了二十九岁，生了他拉。25拿鹤生他拉之后又活了一百一十九年，并且生了儿子和女儿。26他拉活到七十岁，生了亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰。27这些是他拉的后代：他拉生亚伯兰、拿鹤、哈兰；哈兰生罗得。28哈兰死在他父亲他拉的面前，在他的出生地迦勒底的吾珥。29亚伯兰、拿鹤各自娶了妻子；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，和他儿子的儿子、哈兰的儿子罗得、并他儿媳亚伯兰的妻子撒莱，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；他拉死在哈兰。
概览
本段讲述的是洪水之后的第一个古教会（1-9节）。
1279、首先论述的是大洪水后的第一个古教会（1-9节）。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]1279. Genesis 11
1. And the whole earth had one language and the same words.{*1} 2. And it happened when they set out from the east that they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3. And they said, a man to his companion,{*2} "Come, let us make bricks and bake them until baked." And they had brick in place of stone, and tar they had in place of mortar.{*3} 4. And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its head in the sky. And let us make ourselves a name, to keep from being scattered over the face of the whole earth.
5. And Jehovah went down to see the city and tower that the children of humankind were building.
6. And Jehovah said, "Look: the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they are starting to do; and now nothing would be prohibited to them that they thought to do.
7. Come, let us go down and muddle their language there, so that a man will be unable to understand the language of his companion."
8. And Jehovah scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9. For this reason he called its name Babel, because there Jehovah muddled the language of the whole earth.{*4} And from there Jehovah scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
10. These are the births of Shem: Shem was a son of one hundred years,{*5} and he fathered Arpachshad, two years after the flood.
11. And after Shem fathered Arpachshad he lived five hundred years; and he fathered sons and daughters.
12. And Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and fathered Shelah.
13. And after Arpachshad fathered Shelah he lived four hundred three years; and he fathered sons and daughters.
14. And Shelah lived thirty years and fathered Eber.
15. And after Shelah fathered Eber he lived four hundred three years; and he fathered sons and daughters.
16. And Eber lived thirty-four years and fathered Peleg.
17. And after Eber fathered Peleg he lived four hundred thirty years; and he fathered sons and daughters.
18. And Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu.
19. And after Peleg fathered Reu he lived two hundred nine years; and he fathered sons and daughters.
20. And Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered Serug.
21. And after Reu fathered Serug he lived two hundred seven years; and he fathered sons and daughters.
22. And Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor.
23. And after Serug fathered Nahor he lived two hundred years; and he fathered sons and daughters.
24. And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and fathered Terah.
25. And after Nahor fathered Terah he lived one hundred nineteen years; and he fathered sons and daughters.
26. And Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
27. And these are the births of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot.
28. And Haran died in the presence of Terah, his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29. And Abram and Nahor took themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah daughter of Haran (the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah).{*6} 30. And Sarai was infertile; she had no offspring.
31. And Terah took Abram his son and Lot son of Haran (son of his son) and Sarai his daughter-in-law (wife of his son Abram), and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. And they came all the way to Haran{*7} and stayed there.
32. And the days of Terah were two hundred five years; and Terah died in Haran.
Footnotes:
{*1} (in the text of Genesis 11:1). The Latin word here translated "language" is labium, whose root meaning is "lip." Because of differences between Latin and English idioms, for intelligibility in this chapter this Latin word has been rendered with the English words "language," "lip," or "speech," depending on context. [LHC]
{*2} (in the text of Genesis 11:3). The Hebrew phrase here translated "a man to his companion" means "to each other." [LHC]
{*3} (in the text of Genesis 11:3). On tar, or bitumen: "Bitumen is a hydrocarbon allied to petroleum and natural gas... . It is found in small lumps and larger masses in the cretaceous limestone on the west side of the Dead Sea, and there is reason to believe that considerable quantities of it rise to the surface of the Dead Sea during earthquakes... . According to Herodotus and other classical writers it was used as mortar with sun-dried bricks" (Orr and others 1960, under "slime"). [RS]
{*4} (in the text of Genesis 11:9). The Hebrew here is connecting the name Babel (בָּבֶל [bāḇel]) with a verb meaning "muddle" (בָּלַל [bālal]). [LHC]
{*5} (in the text of Genesis 11:10). "A son of (so many) years" is a Hebraism meaning "(so many) years old." [LHC]
{*6} (in the text of Genesis 11:29). Nahor thus married his niece. The marriage of uncle and niece is not specifically forbidden in later Old Testament law (see Leviticus 18:6-20; 20:10-21), unlike the marriage of aunt and nephew (Leviticus 18:12-14; 20:19). The marriage of Abram with his half-sister Sarai (see Genesis 20:12) was of a type later forbidden (Leviticus 18:11; 20:17). [SS]
{*7} (in the text of Genesis 11:31). The "Haran" (Latin Haran; Hebrew הָרָן [hārān]) mentioned earlier in this verse, and in verses 26 through 29, is a person. The "Haran" mentioned at the end of this verse and in the next, although spelled identically in English, is a place, not a person. It represents the Latin Charan, Hebrew חָרָן (ḥārān). [LHC]
1279. Summary
VERSES 1-9 treat of the first ancient church, which followed the Flood.
Potts(1905-1910) 1279
1279. THE CONTENTS. The subject treated of is the first Ancient Church, which was after the flood (verses 1-9).
Elliott(1983-1999) 1279
1279.
The subject in verses 1-9 is the first Ancient Church, which came after the Flood.
Latin(1748-1756) 1279
1279. CONTENTAAGITUR de Ecclesia Antiqua prima quae post diluvium, vers. 1-9.