创世记 12
1 耶和华对亚伯兰说：“你要离开本地、本族、父家，往我所要指示你的地去。
And YHWH says to Abram, “Go for yourself, from your land, and from your family, and from the house of your father, to the land which I show you.
2 我必叫你成为大国。我必赐福给你，叫你的名为大；你也要叫别人得福。
And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing.
3 为你祝福的，我必赐福与他；那咒诅你的，我必咒诅他。地上的万族都要因你得福。”
And I bless those blessing you, and I curse him who is cursing you, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you.”
4 亚伯兰就照着耶和华的吩咐去了；罗得也和他同去。亚伯兰出哈兰的时候年七十五岁。
And Abram goes on, as YHWH has spoken to him, and Lot goes with him, and Abram [is] a son of seventy-five years in his going out from Haran.
5 亚伯兰将他妻子撒莱和侄儿罗得，连他们在哈兰所积蓄的财物、所得的人口，都带往迦南地去。他们就到了迦南地。
And Abram takes his wife Sarai, and his brother’s son Lot, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Haran; and they go out to go toward the land of Canaan; and they come to the land of Canaan.
6 亚伯兰经过那地，到了示剑地方、摩利橡树那里。那时迦南人住在那地。
And Abram passes over into the land, to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land.
7 耶和华向亚伯兰显现，说：“我要把这地赐给你的后裔。”亚伯兰就在那里为向他显现的耶和华筑了一座坛。
And YHWH appears to Abram and says, “To your seed I give this land”; and there he builds an altar to YHWH, who has appeared to him.
8 从那里他又迁到伯特利东边的山，支搭帐棚；西边是伯特利，东边是艾。他在那里又为耶和华筑了一座坛，求告耶和华的名。
And he removes from there toward a mountain at the east of Beth-El, and stretches out the tent (Beth-El at the west, and Hai at the east), and he builds an altar to YHWH there, and preaches in the Name of YHWH.
9 后来亚伯兰又渐渐迁往南地去。
And Abram journeys, going on and journeying toward the south.
10 那地遭遇饥荒。因饥荒甚大，亚伯兰就下埃及去，要在那里暂居。
And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goes down toward Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [is] grievous in the land;
11 将近埃及，就对他妻子撒莱说：“我知道你是容貌俊美的妇人。
and it comes to pass as he has drawn near to enter Egypt, that he says to his wife Sarai, “Now behold, I have known that you [are] a woman of beautiful appearance;
12 埃及人看见你必说：‘这是他的妻子’，他们就要杀我，却叫你存活。
and it has come to pass that the Egyptians see you, and they have said, This [is] his wife; and they have slain me, and you they keep alive:
13 求你说，你是我的妹子，使我因你得平安，我的命也因你存活。”
please say you [are] my sister, so that it is well with me because of you, and my soul has lived for your sake.”
14 及至亚伯兰到了埃及，埃及人看见那妇人极其美貌。
And it comes to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceedingly beautiful;
15 法老的臣宰看见了她，就在法老面前夸奖她。那妇人就被带进法老的宫去。
and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her to Pharaoh, and the woman is taken [to] Pharaoh’s house;
16 法老因这妇人就厚待亚伯兰，亚伯兰得了许多牛、羊、骆驼、公驴、母驴、仆婢。
and to Abram he has done good because of her, and he has sheep and oxen, and male donkeys, and menservants, and handmaids, and female donkeys, and camels.
17 耶和华因亚伯兰妻子撒莱的缘故，降大灾与法老和他的全家。
And YHWH plagues Pharaoh and his house—great plagues—for the matter of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
18 法老就召了亚伯兰来，说：“你这向我做的是什么事呢？为什么没有告诉我她是你的妻子？
And Pharaoh calls for Abram and says, “What [is] this you have done to me? Why have you not declared to me that she [is] your wife?
19 为什么说她是你的妹子，以致我把她取来要作我的妻子？现在你的妻子在这里，可以带她走吧。”
Why have you said, She [is] my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? And now, behold, your wife, take and go.”
20 于是法老吩咐人将亚伯兰和他妻子，并他所有的都送走了。
And Pharaoh charges men concerning him, and they send him away, and his wife, and all that he has.
