The Babel Story

             Below is a translation of Genesis 11:1-9 into Gomain. To capture the original Hebrew meanings of the words, the English (Verbatim) translation from Langmaker.com was used. This text is also available there. The format of this text is: the Gomain translation of one verse in boldface, followed by the English verse in normal formatting.

Verse 1 - Listen to it
Ís bákshop án zath mekoung ókhwéroith oi ís óweingá ówóyá.
And all of the land had one language and common words.

Verse 2 - Listen to it
Ís fúm khefeingŕóng lóm úroish, khekreióng úm ózésh stáfl^e úzath ám Shínár ís khelimbóng ras.
And when they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and lived there.

Verse 3 - Listen to it
Ís khepraikhweing bákai úbákai: "¡Bordú! zhechoingók ódóglehá ís zhehóthók fo sálimíndí." Ís dógle meveng óthédóⁿ poi fo, ís dókrád meveng óthétsú poi fo.
And they said to each other, "Come! Let's make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And the brick was stone to them, and the clay was mortar to them.

Verse 4 - Listen to it
Ís khepraikhweing: "¡Bordú! zhecheintrouók fou ró úm ókaikól ís úm ócheix ís nŕaidlém stáfl^e úwerúyú; ís zhechoingók fou ró úm óbách vírt zhekhógöwung nér údánid ám zath oich."
And they said, "Come! Let's build for us a city and a tower and its head in the sky; and let's make for us a name, lest we be scattered on the face of the whole land."

Verse 5 - Listen to it
Ís Yávé gekómbóng poi páloidhí ókaikól ís ócheix ló shivá ám kaif cheintrououng.
And Yahweh descended to see the city and the tower which the sons of man had built.

Verse 6 - Listen to it
Ís Yávé gepraikhweing: "Shtoileit, ózh oi ís khwéroith oi úbákshop án fá, ís ónoing khebérrásoung nei. Ís góskó, únggaidh ná lóm fá bákól ló khehébég nei.
And Yahweh said, "Behold, one nation, and one language for all of them, and this they have begun to do. And now, it will not be denied from them, all which they plan to do.

Verse 7 - Listen to it
¡Bordu! zhekómbówók ís zhehelvúrók ókhwéroithlékh ring, poi khepoukájoidh ná ókhwéroith ám bákai úbákai."
Come! Let's descend and let's confuse their language here, that they will not hear each other's language."

Verse 8 - Listen to it
 Ís Yávé gekhógöwóng fá lóm úras nér údánid ám zath oich, ís khehérdlóng cheintroudhí ókaikól.
And Yahweh scattered them from there on the face of the whole land, and they ceased to build the city.

Verse 9 - Listen to it
Nóyá letólówóng óbáchlém Bábél, yorwá ras Yávé gehelvúróng ókhwéroith ám záth oich, ís lóm úras Yávé gekhógöwóng fá nér údánid ám zath.
Therefore they called its name Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of the whole land, and from there Yahweh scattered them on the face of the land.

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