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Genesi 11
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
Genesi 11
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
La torre di Babele
11 Tutta la terra aveva una sola lingua e le stesse parole. 2 Emigrando dall'oriente gli uomini capitarono in una pianura nel paese di Sennaar e vi si stabilirono. 3 Si dissero l'un l'altro: «Venite, facciamoci mattoni e cuociamoli al fuoco». Il mattone servì loro da pietra e il bitume da cemento. 4 Poi dissero: «Venite, costruiamoci una città e una torre, la cui cima tocchi il cielo e facciamoci un nome, per non disperderci su tutta la terra». 5 Ma il Signore scese a vedere la città e la torre che gli uomini stavano costruendo. 6 Il Signore disse: «Ecco, essi sono un solo popolo e hanno tutti una lingua sola; questo è l'inizio della loro opera e ora quanto avranno in progetto di fare non sarà loro impossibile. 7 Scendiamo dunque e confondiamo la loro lingua, perché non comprendano più l'uno la lingua dell'altro». 8 Il Signore li disperse di là su tutta la terra ed essi essarono di costruire la città. 9 Per questo la si chiamò Babele, perché là il Signore confuse la lingua di tutta la terra e di là il Signore li disperse su tutta la terra.
I patriarchi postdiluviani
10 Questa è la discendenza di Sem: Sem aveva cento anni quando generò Arpacsad, due anni dopo il diluvio; 11 Sem, dopo aver generato Arpacsad, visse cinquecento anni e generò figli e figlie.
12 Arpacsad aveva trentacinque anni quando generò Selach; 13 Arpacsad, dopo aver generato Selach, visse quattrocentotrè anni e generò figli e figlie.
14 Selach aveva trent'anni quando generò Eber; 15 Selach, dopo aver generato Eber, visse quattrocentotrè anni e generò figli e figlie.
16 Eber aveva trentaquattro anni quando generò Peleg; 17 Eber, dopo aver generato Peleg, visse quattrocentotrenta anni e generò figli e figlie.
18 Peleg aveva trent'anni quando generò Reu; 19 Peleg, dopo aver generato Reu, visse duecentonove anni e generò figli e figlie.
20 Reu aveva trentadue anni quando generò Serug; 21 Reu, dopo aver generato Serug, visse duecentosette anni e generò figli e figlie.
22 Serug aveva trent'anni quando generò Nacor; 23 Serug, dopo aver generato Nacor, visse duecento anni e generò figli e figlie.
24 Nacor aveva ventinove anni quando generò Terach; 25 Nacor, dopo aver generato Terach, visse centodiciannove anni e generò figli e figlie.
26 Terach aveva settant'anni quando generò Abram, Nacor e Aran.
La discendenza di Terach
27 Questa è la posterità di Terach: Terach generò Abram, Nacor e Aran: Aran generò Lot. 28 Aran poi morì alla presenza di suo padre Terach nella sua terra natale, in Ur dei Caldei. 29 Abram e Nacor si presero delle mogli; la moglie di Abram si chiamava Sarai e la moglie di Nacor Milca, ch'era figlia di Aran, padre di Milca e padre di Isca. 30 Sarai era sterile e non aveva figli.
31 Poi Terach prese Abram, suo figlio, e Lot, figlio di Aran, figlio cioè del suo figlio, e Sarai sua nuora, moglie di Abram suo figlio, e uscì con loro da Ur dei Caldei per andare nel paese di Canaan. Arrivarono fino a Carran e vi si stabilirono.
32 L'età della vita di Terach fu di duecentocinque anni; Terach morì in Carran.
Genesis 11
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Genesis 11
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The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole world had one language(A) and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b](B) and settled there.
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks(C) and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,(D) and tar(E) for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,(F) so that we may make a name(G) for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered(H) over the face of the whole earth.”(I)
5 But the Lord came down(J) to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language(K) they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us(L) go down(M) and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”(N)
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,(O) and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c](P)—because there the Lord confused the language(Q) of the whole world.(R) From there the Lord scattered(S) them over the face of the whole earth.
From Shem to Abram(T)
10 This is the account(U) of Shem’s family line.
Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father[d] of Arphaxad.(V) 11 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.(W) 13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.[e]
14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.(X) 15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.(Y) 17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.(Z) 19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.(AA) 21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.(AB) 23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.(AC) 25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram,(AD) Nahor(AE) and Haran.(AF)
Abram’s Family
27 This is the account(AG) of Terah’s family line.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor(AH) and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.(AI) 28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans,(AJ) in the land of his birth. 29 Abram and Nahor(AK) both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai,(AL) and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah;(AM) she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. 30 Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.(AN)
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot(AO) son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law(AP) Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans(AQ) to go to Canaan.(AR) But when they came to Harran,(AS) they settled there.
32 Terah(AT) lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.
Footnotes
- Genesis 11:2 Or from the east; or in the east
- Genesis 11:2 That is, Babylonia
- Genesis 11:9 That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.
- Genesis 11:10 Father may mean ancestor; also in verses 11-25.
- Genesis 11:13 Hebrew; Septuagint (see also Luke 3:35, 36 and note at Gen. 10:24) 35 years, he became the father of Cainan. 13 And after he became the father of Cainan, Arphaxad lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters, and then he died. When Cainan had lived 130 years, he became the father of Shelah. And after he became the father of Shelah, Cainan lived 330 years and had other sons and daughters
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