The Tower of Babel

saincebe no'on mīcujan sai mufe laxun, itz no'o ñeñek twel eswa.

Now the whole world has 1 language and a common speech.

eifa upwoto fej kew, na isuxinor Zajnar muj mos ju'eca, na nolfe ñekrux.

As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

[zax jul. jaki ruruzipa az sun na neneko az traxu'ub lutān] no'o ñeñek twel manestu

They said to each other, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly."

no'o ruzipa tazim zuke lori, na leizemta kolñ zuke lori.

They used brick instead of stone, and bitumen for mortar.

no'o nokao. [zax jul. jaki ōtonol en farixi remun bi ta ne muj mairuñ az ruxjan. pat ta fariki saiño zax ro.

Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,

pi lori, jaki sumix kixirn. ken akpiru jaki nonol prins ta saincebe fej kulcax tux.]

so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth"

atke Talōr saiño man jul na ōtonol li farixi remun ta eifa uzi.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

[nanata e nata mīcujan ipoln lori eswa tzun leq ao nu'an akpiru watke en nanata sun piris raj anebeke] Talōr manestu

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.

[zax jul. jaki kew na mīcujan natan raj tseok, itz nanata ñeñek raj naetzi ken."

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

itz Talōr eifa nonol prins ta saincebe fej kulcax. eifa ōtonol ruxjan or.

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

ōtonol Fezweñ bātu'o xixe mable. nolfe, Talōr tzun, e no'o mīcujan ta eifa tseok lori, fe zweñ.

That is why it was called Fezweñ (Babel), because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world.