Genesis 12
1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
上主對亞巴郎說：「離開你的故鄉、你的家族和父家，往我指給你的地方去。
2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
我要使你成為一個大民族，我必祝福你，使你成名，成為一個福源。
3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
我要祝福那祝福你的人，咒罵那咒罵你的人；地上萬民都要因你獲得祝福。」
4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
亞巴郎遂照上主的吩咐起了身，羅特也同他一起走了。亞巴郎離開哈蘭時，已七十五歲。
5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.
他帶了妻子撒辣依、他兄弟的兒子羅特和他在哈蘭積蓄的財物，獲得的僕婢，一同往客納罕地去，終於到了客納罕地。
6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.
亞巴郎經過那地，直到了舍根地摩勒橡樹區；當時客納罕人尚住在那地方。
7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
上主顯現給亞巴郎說：「我要將這地方賜給你的後裔。」亞巴郎就在那裏給顯現於他的上主，築了一座祭壇。
8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
從那裏又遷移到貝特耳東面山區，在那裏搭了帳幕，西有貝特耳，東有哈依；他在那裏又為上主築了一座祭壇，呼求上主的名。
9 Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.
以後亞巴郎漸漸移往乃革布區。
10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
其時那地方起了饑荒，亞巴郎遂下到埃及，寄居在那裏，因為那地方飢荒十分嚴重。
11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
當他要進埃及時，對妻子撒辣依說：「我知道你是個貌美的女人；
12 It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
埃及人見了你，必要說：這是他的妻子；他們定要殺我，讓你活著。
13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”
所以請你說：你是我的妹妹，這樣我因了你而必獲優待，賴你的情面，保全我的生命。」
14 When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
果然，當亞巴郎一到了埃及，埃及人就注意了這女人實在美麗。
15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
法郎的朝臣也看見了她，就在法郎前讚她美麗；這女人就被帶入法郎的宮中。
16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
亞巴郎因了她果然蒙了優待，得了些牛羊、公驢、僕婢、母驢和駱駝。
17 Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
但是，上主為了亞巴郎的妻子撒辣依的事，降下大難打擊了法郎和他全家。
18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?
法郎遂叫亞巴郎來說：「你對我作的是什麼事﹖為什麼你沒有告訴我，她是你的妻子﹖
19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”
為什麼你說：她是我的妹妹，以致我娶了她做我的妻子﹖現在你的妻子在這裏，你帶她去罷! 」
20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.
法郎於是吩咐人送走了亞巴郎和他的妻子以及他所有的一切。
