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The Babel Text in Xliponian



by 
Institut Lingistic Bovlai
Bovlai Institute of Linguistics

1 In çer ert on serm ac on mot lincui.
2 Fuit ha salirinn de orient ac inbenenn hamp in çer Xinar ac apiçarann inte.
3 Ac tiqit om ad om, benit, vahem laçri ac hocuim tem in icen ac apuirunn laçri hom saqi ac peçuim hom himenn.
4 Ac tiqirinn, benit, vahem nos hibiçait ac çur hui hulmin fertincat ad hail ac heliprem noim nosser ot non sermes tibitut in çeri çoti.
5 Auçem tessennet Tomen ot biter hibiçait ac çur ha aiçficarann vili Adam.
6 Ac tiqit, eh foxlo est on ac serm tenen est on, ac ete hoifrinn vaher, ac non tesistris a çot ha hocitas vaher.
7 Eh benit teqindam ac hofunnam ipi serm tenen ot non autis om lincu a om.
8 Aciç tibiti tem Tomen eq loh ilo in çeri çoti ac hesabann aiçficar hibiçait.
9 Ac ihirc noim ei est bohut Babel hui ipi honvusiti Tomen serm a çer çot ac atte Tomen sfirsi tem sur vaih a çer çot.

[Xliponian Version of 1888]

1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another: 'Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4 And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.'
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

[Jewish Publication Society Old Testament]