創世記 12
1 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。
Then the Lord said to Abram: “Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, and come into the land that I will show you.
2 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。
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.
3 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。」
I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
4 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。
And so Abram departed just as the Lord had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5 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。
And he took his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother, and all the substance which they had come to possess, and the lives which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed in order to go to the land of Canaan. And when they arrived in it,
6 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。
Abram passed through the land even to the place of Shechem, as far as the famous steep valley. Now at that time, the Canaanite was in the land.
7 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。
Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and he said to him, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 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。
And passing on from there to a mountain, which was opposite the east of Bethel, he pitched his tent there, having Bethel to the west, and Hai on the east. He also built an altar there to the Lord, and he called upon his name.
9 以後亞巴郎漸漸移往乃革布區。
And Abram traveled, going out and continuing further on, toward the south.
10 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。
But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land.
11 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；
And when he was close to entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai: “I know you to be a beautiful woman.
12 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。
And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘She is his wife.’ And they will put me to death, and retain you.
13 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。」
Therefore, I beg you to say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me because of you, and so that my soul may live by your favor.”
14 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。
And so, when Abram had arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was exceedingly beautiful.
15 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。
And the princes reported it to Pharaoh, and they praised her to him. And the woman was inducted into the house of Pharaoh.
16 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。
In truth, they treated Abram well because of her. And he had sheep and oxen and male donkeys, and men servants, and women servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
17 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。
But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his house with great wounds because of Sarai, the wife of Abram.
18 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﹖
And Pharaoh called Abram, and he said to him: “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife?
19 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! 」
For what reason did you claim her to be your sister, so that I would take her to me as a wife? Now therefore, behold your mate, receive her and go.”
20 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。
And Pharaoh instructed his men about Abram. And they led him away with his wife and all that he had.
