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創世記 12

耶和華對亞伯蘭說：「你要離開本地、本族、父家，往我所要指示你的地去。 2 我必叫你成為大國，我必賜福給你，叫你的名為大，你也要叫別人得福。 3 為你祝福的，我必賜福於他；那咒詛你的，我必咒詛他。地上的萬族都要因你得福。」 4 亞伯蘭就照著耶和華的吩咐去了，羅得也和他同去。亞伯蘭出哈蘭的時候年七十五歲。 5 亞伯蘭將他妻子撒萊和侄兒羅得，連他們在哈蘭所積蓄的財物、所得的人口，都帶往迦南地去。他們就到了迦南地。 6 亞伯蘭經過那地，到了示劍地方，摩利橡樹那裡。那時，迦南人住在那地。 7 耶和華向亞伯蘭顯現，說：「我要把這地賜給你的後裔。」亞伯蘭就在那裡為向他顯現的耶和華築了一座壇。 8 從那裡他又遷到伯特利東邊的山，支搭帳篷。西邊是伯特利，東邊是艾。他在那裡又為耶和華築了一座壇，求告耶和華的名。 9 後來亞伯蘭又漸漸遷往南地去。

10 那地遭遇饑荒。因饑荒甚大，亞伯蘭就下埃及去，要在那裡暫居。 11 將近埃及，就對他妻子撒萊說：「我知道你是容貌俊美的婦人， 12 埃及人看見你必說『這是他的妻子』，他們就要殺我，卻叫你存活。 13 求你說你是我的妹子，使我因你得平安，我的命也因你存活。」 14 及至亞伯蘭到了埃及，埃及人看見那婦人極其美貌。 15 法老的臣宰看見了她，就在法老面前誇獎她，那婦人就被帶進法老的宮去。 16 法老因這婦人就厚待亞伯蘭，亞伯蘭得了許多牛、羊、駱駝、公驢、母驢、僕婢。 17 耶和華因亞伯蘭妻子撒萊的緣故，降大災於法老和他的全家。

18 法老就召了亞伯蘭來，說：「你這向我做的是什麼事呢？為什麼沒有告訴我她是你的妻子？ 19 為什麼說她是你的妹子，以致我把她取來要做我的妻子？現在你的妻子在這裡，可以帶她走吧！」 20 於是法老吩咐人將亞伯蘭和他妻子，並他所有的都送走了。

Genesis 12

Now the Lord had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.

7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8 And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. 9 So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance. 12 Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you.”

14 So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. 15 The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house. 16 He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

17 But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now therefore, here is your wife; take her and go your way.” 20 So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.