2008年1月11日金曜日

The Tower of Babelfish - Genesis 11:1-9

Maintaining the entire world it had a LANGUAGE and communal land speech of A. Whereas the men moved towards is, found completely in Shinar and balanced the account there.

They said tons, "Come, they leave to fact bricks completely and the beacon." They used the brick instead of the stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, "Come, they let the U.S.A. be constructed center of city of A, with A more of return than it reaches the ton the skies, soon the merchandise entering may make the name of A that stops we ourself and the urgency dispersed more on the expensive whole earth."

But the GENTLEMAN descended the lake from ton the center of city and plus the men they constructed return. The GENTLEMAN said, "If as people speaking the same LANGUAGE began tons of do this, soon urgency-to hang completely of the tons of want impossible for them. Come, you descend and to confuse his LANGUAGE that dear for the urgency was bought of such way."

There thus the GENTLEMAN dispersed them still more of excessive the all Earth, and let settle down the center of city. This is the reason by which he what Babel called because there the GENTLEMAN confused the LANGUAGE of the entire world. There of the GENTLEMAN it dispersed them above of the whole Earth face.

 - trans- and retrans-lations of Genesis 11:1-9 using the babelfish online translator.



Original text

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 for 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 begun 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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