Genesis 11 The Tower of Babel 巴别塔

苏洪钊

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Once upon a time all the world spoke a single language and used the same words. As men journeyed in the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them hard’; they used bricks for stone and bitumen for mortar. ‘Come,’ they said, ‘let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves; or we shall be dispersed all over the earth.’ Then the Lord came down to see the city and tower which mortal men had built, and he said, ‘Here they are, one people with a single language, and now they have started to do this; henceforward nothing they have a mind to do will be beyond their reach. Come, let us go down there and confuse their speech, so that they will not understand what they say to one another.’ So the Lord dispersed them from there all over the earth, and they left off building the city. That is why it is called Babel, because the Lord there made a babble of the language of all the world; from that place the Lord scattered men all over the face of the earth.
巴别城塔

创世记
从前，世界是上说的是同一种语言，用的是同一种文字。当人们向东迁徙来到了示拿地方的一片平原上，就停了下来定居。他们大家商议说：“来罢，我们来烧制一些砖块。”他们用砖当石头，沥青作灰泥。“来吧，”他们说：“我们给自己建造一座城市和造一座顶端入云的高塔以留名后世。不然，我们就会流散各地，无所依归了。”不久，天主下来察看世人修建的这座城池和高塔，他说：“他们在这儿是一个使用同一语言的种族。如今他们开始建造城阁，从此他们只要下了决心，就什么事都难不倒他们了。来，我们到他们那儿去，弄乱他们的语言。这样，他们就彼此不能沟通了。”于是，天主把他们分散到世界各地，他们修城筑塔的工程也就半途而废了。这就是为什么这座城叫做巴别，因为天主在那里使世上的语言变成了彼此听不懂的声音。上帝从那里把地上的人都分散到世界的各个角落。

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Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come! Let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar. Then they said, “Come! Let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have began to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come! Let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world, from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

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