創世記11:1-9

11:1 那時，天下人的口音、言語都是一樣。
11:2 他們往東邊遷移的時候，在示拿地遇見一片平原，就住在那裡。
11:3 他們彼此商量說：「來吧！我們要做磚，把磚燒透了。」他們就拿磚當石頭，又拿石漆當灰泥。
11:4 他們說：「來吧！我們要建造一座城和一座塔，塔頂通天，為要傳揚我們的名，免得我們分散在全地上。」
11:5 耶和華降臨，要看看世人所建造的城和塔。
11:6 耶和華說：「看哪，他們成為一樣的人民，都是一樣的言語，如今既做起這事來，以後他們所要做的事就沒有不成就的了。
11:7 我們下去，在那裡變亂他們的口音，使他們的言語彼此不通。」
11:8 於是耶和華使他們從那裡分散在全地上；他們就停工，不造那城了。
11:9 因為耶和華在那裡變亂天下人的言語，使眾人分散在全地上，所以那城名叫巴別【就是變亂的意思】。

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ² As people moved eastward,^[a] they found a plain in Shinar^[b] and settled there.

³ They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. ⁴ 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; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
⁵ But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. ⁶ 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. ⁷ Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
⁸ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. ⁹ That is why it was called Babel^[c]—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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    雖然洪水好像把不義的人都殺死了，人就從此會敬畏上帝嗎？當然是不可能的！就像巴別塔的建立是為了高舉人，就像當時的人之宣告：「來吧！我們要建造一座城和一座塔，塔頂通天，為要傳揚我們的名，免得我們分散在全地上。」

    上帝避免人的罪惡繼續下去，就變亂他們的口音，使他們的言語彼此不通。也因為這樣人和人就無法溝通，除非要經過翻譯。就像我們生活的現實環境，就有許多的語言。語言不同就會造成彼此的隔閡，就無法合作了！

    而巴別塔的教訓也是提醒我們不要建立超大組織，這是主所不喜悅，這樣的組織最後是宣揚人，不是宣揚上帝！所以，我們建立教會，是要宣揚基督，而不是告訴世人基督徒是很棒、道德高操的人。要人信耶穌，不是要榮耀教會！

   

創世記10:21-32

10:21 雅弗的哥哥閃，是希伯子孫之祖，他也生了兒子。
10:22 閃的兒子是以攔、亞述、亞法撒、路德、亞蘭。
10:23 亞蘭的兒子是烏斯、戶勒、基帖、瑪施。
10:24 亞法撒生沙拉；沙拉生希伯。
10:25 希伯生了兩個兒子，一個名叫法勒（就是分的意思），因為那時人就分地居住；法勒的兄弟名叫約坍。
10:26 約坍生亞摩答、沙列、哈薩瑪非、耶拉、
10:27 哈多蘭、烏薩、德拉、
10:28 俄巴路、亞比瑪利、示巴、
10:29 阿斐、哈腓拉、約巴，這都是約坍的兒子。
10:30 他們所住的地方是從米沙直到西發東邊的山。
10:31 這就是閃的子孫，各隨他們的宗族、方言，所住的地土、邦國。
10:32 這些都是挪亞三個兒子的宗族，各隨他們的支派立國。洪水以後，他們在地上分為邦國。

²¹ Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

²² The sons of Shem:

Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.

²³ The sons of Aram:

Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.

²⁴ Arphaxad was the father of Shelah,

and Shelah the father of Eber.

²⁵ Two sons were born to Eber:

One was named Peleg,^[k] because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

²⁶ Joktan was the father of

Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, ²⁷ Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, ²⁸ Obal, Abimael, Sheba, ²⁹ Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

³⁰ The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

³¹ These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

³² These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

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    閃的後裔就是指居住在亞洲的，尤其是指亞伯拉罕的子孫！

創世記10:6-20

10:6 含的兒子是古實、麥西、弗、迦南。
10:7 古實的兒子是西巴、哈腓拉、撒弗他、拉瑪、撒弗提迦。拉瑪的兒子是示巴、底但。
10:8 古實又生寧錄，他為世上英雄之首。
10:9 他在耶和華面前是個英勇的獵戶，所以俗語說：「像寧錄在耶和華面前是個英勇的獵戶。」
10:10 他國的起頭是巴別、以力、亞甲、甲尼，都在示拿地。
10:11 他從那地出來往亞述去，建造尼尼微、利河伯、迦拉，
10:12 和尼尼微、迦拉中間的利鮮，這就是那大城。
10:13 麥西生路低人、亞拿米人、利哈比人、拿弗土希人、
10:14 帕斯魯細人、迦斯路希人、迦斐託人；從迦斐託出來的有非利士人。
10:15 迦南生長子西頓，又生赫
10:16 和耶布斯人、亞摩利人、革迦撒人、
10:17 希未人、亞基人、西尼人、
10:18 亞瓦底人、洗瑪利人、哈馬人，後來迦南的諸族分散了。
10:19 迦南的境界是從西頓向基拉耳的路上，直到迦薩，又向所多瑪、蛾摩拉、押瑪、洗扁的路上，直到拉沙。
10:20 這就是含的後裔，各隨他們的宗族、方言，所住的地土、邦國。

⁶ The sons of Ham:

Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.

⁷ The sons of Cush:

Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.

The sons of Raamah:

Sheba and Dedan.

⁸ Cush was the father^[c] of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. ⁹ He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.” ¹⁰ The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in^[d] Shinar.^{[e] 11} From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir,^[f] Calah ¹² and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.

¹³ Egypt was the father of

the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, ¹⁴ Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.

¹⁵ Canaan was the father of

Sidon his firstborn,^[g] and of the Hittites, ¹⁶ Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, ¹⁷ Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, ¹⁸ Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.

Later the Canaanite clans scattered ¹⁹ and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.

²⁰ These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

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    含的後代，大都居住在非洲。

創世記10章

      創世記10:1-5  ,

      創世記10:6-20  ,

      創世記10:21-32 ,

創世記10:1-5

10:1 挪亞的兒子閃、含、雅弗的後代記在下面。洪水以後，他們都生了兒子。
10:2 雅弗的兒子是歌篾、瑪各、瑪代、雅完、土巴、米設、提拉。
10:3 歌篾的兒子是亞實基拿、利法、陀迦瑪。
10:4 雅完的兒子是以利沙、他施、基提、多單。
10:5 這些人的後裔將各國的地土、海島分開居住，各隨各的方言、宗族立國。

This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

² The sons of Japheth:

Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.

³ The sons of Gomer:

Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.

⁴ The sons of Javan:

Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites. ⁵ (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)

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    洪水之後剩下挪亞一家人，所以我們都是挪亞的後代，挪亞有三個兒子：閃、含、雅弗。而在這裡首先記載雅弗得族系。

    雅弗通常認為是白種人，居住在歐洲一帶。