Genesis · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)

Genesis 11 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)

About Vamvas

Individual translator
OT: Masoretic Hebrew
NT: Textus Receptus (not verified)
Protestant (66 books)
Formal (word for word)
1850
Public domain

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Notes on this text (2)

The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).

Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)

WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)

1 Και ήτο πάσα η γη μιας γλώσσης και μιας φωνής.

1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

2 Και ότε εκίνησαν από της ανατολής, εύρον πεδιάδα εν τη γη Σενναάρ· και κατώκησαν εκεί.

2 As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

3 Και είπεν ο εις προς τον άλλον, Έλθετε, ας κάμωμεν πλίνθους, και ας ψήσωμεν αυτάς εν πυρί· και εχρησίμευσεν εις αυτούς η μεν πλίνθος αντί πέτρας, η δε άσφαλτος εχρησίμευσεν εις αυτούς αντί πηλού.

3 They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

4 Και είπον, Έλθετε, ας οικοδομήσωμεν εις εαυτούς πόλιν και πύργον, του οποίου η κορυφή να φθάνη έως του ουρανού· και ας αποκτήσωμεν εις εαυτούς όνομα, μήπως διασπαρώμεν επί του προσώπου πάσης της γης.

4 They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

5 Κατέβη δε ο Κύριος διά να ίδη την πόλιν και τον πύργον, τον οποίον ωκοδόμησαν οι υιοί των ανθρώπων.

5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6 Και είπεν ο Κύριος, Ιδού, εις λαός, και πάντες έχουσι μίαν γλώσσαν, και ήρχισαν να κάμνωσι τούτο· και τώρα δεν θέλει εμποδισθή εις αυτούς παν ό,τι σκοπεύουσι να κάμωσιν·

6 Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

7 έλθετε, ας καταβώμεν και ας συγχύσωμεν εκεί την γλώσσαν αυτών, διά να μη εννοή ο εις του άλλου την γλώσσαν.

7 Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

8 Και διεσκόρπισεν αυτούς ο Κύριος εκείθεν επί του προσώπου πάσης της γής· και έπαυσαν να οικοδομώσι την πόλιν.

8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

9 Διά τούτο ωνομάσθη το όνομα αυτής Βαβέλ· διότι εκεί συνέχεεν ο Κύριος την γλώσσαν πάσης της γής· και εκείθεν διεσκόρπισεν αυτούς ο Κύριος επί το πρόσωπον πάσης της γης.

9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

10 ◆ Αύτη είναι η γενεαλογία του Σημ. Ο Σημ ήτο ετών εκατόν, ότε εγέννησε τον Αρφαξάδ δύο έτη μετά τον κατακλυσμόν·

10 This is the history of the generations of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

11 ◆ και έζησεν ο Σημ, αφού εγέννησε τον Αρφαξάδ, πεντακόσια έτη, και εγέννησεν υιούς και θυγατέρας.

11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

12 ◆ Και ο Αρφαξάδ έζησε τριάκοντα πέντε έτη, και εγέννησε τον Σαλά·

12 Arpachshad lived thirty-five years and became the father of Shelah.

13 ◆ και έζησεν ο Αρφαξάδ, αφού εγέννησε τον Σαλά, τετρακόσια τρία έτη, και εγέννησεν υιούς και θυγατέρας.

13 Arpachshad lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

14 ◆ Και ο Σαλά έζησε τριάκοντα έτη, και εγέννησε τον Εβερ·

14 Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber.

15 ◆ και έζησεν ο Σαλά, αφού εγέννησε τον Έβερ, τετρακόσια τρία έτη, και εγέννησεν υιούς και θυγατέρας.

15 Shelah lived four hundred three years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

16 ◆ Και έζησεν ο Έβερ τριάκοντα τέσσαρα έτη, και εγέννησε τον Φαλέγ·

16 Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg.

17 ◆ και έζησεν ο Έβερ, αφού εγέννησε τον Φαλέγ, τετρακόσια τριάκοντα έτη, και εγέννησεν υιούς και θυγατέρας.

17 Eber lived four hundred thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

18 ◆ Και έζησεν ο Φαλέγ τριάκοντα έτη, και εγέννησε τον Ραγαύ·

18 Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu.

19 ◆ και έζησεν ο Φαλέγ, αφού εγέννησε τον Ραγαύ, διακόσια εννέα έτη, και εγέννησεν υιούς και θυγατέρας.

19 Peleg lived two hundred nine years after he became the father of Reu, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

20 ◆ Και έζησεν ο Ραγαύ τριάκοντα δύο έτη, και εγέννησε τον Σερούχ·

20 Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug.

21 ◆ και έζησεν ο Ραγαύ, αφού εγέννησε τον Σερούχ, διακόσια επτά έτη, και εγέννησεν υιούς και θυγατέρας.

21 Reu lived two hundred seven years after he became the father of Serug, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

22 ◆ Και έζησεν ο Σερούχ τριάκοντα έτη, και εγέννησε τον Ναχώρ·

22 Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor.

23 ◆ και έζησεν ο Σερούχ, αφού εγέννησε τον Ναχώρ, διακόσια έτη, και εγέννησεν υιούς και θυγατέρας.

23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

24 ◆ Και έζησεν ο Ναχώρ εικοσιεννέα έτη, και εγέννησε τον Θάρα·

24 Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

25 ◆ και έζησεν ο Ναχώρ, αφού εγέννησε τον Θάρα, εκατόν δεκαεννέα έτη, και εγέννησεν υιούς και θυγατέρας.

25 Nahor lived one hundred nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

26 ◆ Και έζησεν ο Θάρα εβδομήκοντα έτη, και εγέννησε τον Άβραμ, τον Ναχώρ, και τον Αρράν.

26 Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 Και αύτη είναι η γενεαλογία του Θάρα· ο Θάρα εγέννησε τον Άβραμ, τον Ναχώρ, και τον Αρράν· και ο Αρράν εγέννησε τον Λωτ.

27 Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

28 Και απέθανεν ο Αρράν ενώπιον Θάρα του πατρός αυτού εν τω τόπω της γεννήσεως αυτού, εν Ουρ των Χαλδαίων.

28 Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees, while his father Terah was still alive.

29 Και έλαβον ο Άβραμ και ο Ναχώρ εις εαυτούς γυναίκας· το όνομα της γυναικός του Άβραμ ήτο Σάρα· και το όνομα της γυναικός του Ναχώρ, Μελχά, θυγάτηρ του Αρράν, πατρός Μελχά, και πατρός Ιεσχά.

29 Abram and Nahor married wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah.

30 Η δε Σάρα ήτο στείρα, δεν είχε τέκνον.

30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

31 Και έλαβεν ο Θάρα Άβραμ τον υιόν αυτού και Λωτ τον υιόν του Αρράν εγγονόν εαυτού, και Σάραν την εαυτού νύμφην, την γυναίκα Άβραμ του υιού αυτού· και εξήλθον ομού από της Ουρ των Χαλδαίων, διά να υπάγωσιν εις την γην Χαναάν· και ήλθον έως Χαρράν και κατώκησαν εκεί.

31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

32 Και έγειναν αι ημέραι του Θάρα διακόσια πέντε έτη· και απέθανεν ο Θάρα εν Χαρράν.

32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

People & places in this chapter

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People

Arphaxad
Son of Shem
Born two years after the flood, a link from Shem toward Abraham.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 10:22–24; 11:10–13
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Eber
Namesake of the Hebrews
The name behind the word 'Hebrew,' father of Peleg.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 10:24–25; 11:14–17
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Haran
Father of Lot
Abraham's brother who died young in Ur, leaving his son Lot.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:26–31
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Iscah
Daughter of Haran
A daughter of Haran and the sister of Milcah, named only in the account of Terah's family.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:29
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Lot
Abraham's nephew
Abraham's nephew who chose the plain of Jordan and settled near Sodom.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11–14; 19
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Milcah
Wife of Nahor, daughter of Haran
Haran's daughter and the sister of Iscah, who became the wife of Nahor.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:29; Genesis 22:20; Genesis 22:23
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Nahor
Abraham's grandfather
The grandfather of Abraham, standing just before Terah in the line.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:22–25
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Nahor
Son of Terah, brother of Abram
Terah's son and the brother of Abram and Haran, who took Milcah, the daughter of Haran, as his wife.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:26; Genesis 11:27; Genesis 11:29
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Peleg
Son of Eber
In his days, Scripture says, the earth was divided.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 10:25; 11:16–19
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Reu
Son of Peleg
A link in the generations descending toward Abraham.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:18–21
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Serug
Son of Reu
Great-grandfather of Abraham in the line from Shem.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:20–23
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Shelah
Son of Arphaxad
A quiet link in the line from Shem to Eber and Abraham.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 10:24; 11:12–15
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Shem
Ancestor of the Hebrews
Noah's blessed son, ancestor of the Semitic peoples and of Abraham.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 9:18–10:31; 11:10–26
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Terah
Father of Abraham
He left Ur with his family and journeyed toward Canaan, settling in Haran.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:24–32
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Places

Haran
Today: Southern Turkey (Upper Mesopotamia)
A caravan city in Upper Mesopotamia and the family's waypoint between Ur and Canaan. Abraham departed from here for Canaan; Jacob later sojourned with Laban nearby.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:4; Genesis 28:10
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Ur
Today: Southern Iraq (near the Euphrates)
Traditionally the southern Sumerian city (Tell el-Muqayyar) with its famous ziggurat, though some scholars argue for a northern Ur (location debated). Abraham set out from here.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:31; Genesis 15:7; Nehemiah 9:7
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Why does my Bible say something different?

Genesis 5 and 11: why the patriarchs’ ages differ
In the Greek Septuagint most patriarchs in Genesis 5 and 11 become fathers about 100 years later than in the Hebrew text, and Genesis 11 adds a second Cainan, whom St Luke also names (Luke 3:36). The result is a world history over a thousand years longer. The Byzantine calendar was built on the Greek numbers. No doctrine depends on either set.

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

Quotes verse 11:1–9 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVI, Chapters 3–4)
Therefore the name of it is called Confusion; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and the Lord God scattered them thence on the face of all the earth." This city, which was called Confusion, is the same as Babylon, whose wonderful construction Gentile history also notices.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Quotes verse 11:6 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVI, Chapters 5–8)
The words, "Nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do," are assuredly not meant as an affirmation, but as an interrogation, such as is used by persons threatening, as e.g., when Dido exclaims, "They will not take arms and pursue?" We are to understand the words as if it had been said, Shall nothing be restrained …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Quotes verse 11:27–29 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XVI, Chapters 12–15)
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah." This Iscah is supposed to be the same as Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)