創世記 12
1 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。
Then Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave this country where you are now living. Leave your father’s clan and his family. Go to a land that I will show you.
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。
I will cause your descendants to become a large nation. I will bless you and cause you to become (famous/highly esteemed). What I do for you will be a blessing to others.
3 為你祝福的，我必賜福與他；那咒詛你的，我必咒詛他。地上的萬族都要因你得福。」
I will bless those who (bless/ask God to do good things for) you, and I will (curse/ask God to punish) those who do evil things to you. And because of what you do, groups of people all over the earth will receive blessings (OR, people will wish that God will bless others as much as he has blessed you).”
4 亞伯蘭就照着耶和華的吩咐去了；羅得也和他同去。亞伯蘭出哈蘭的時候年七十五歲。
So Abram left Haran [town], as Yahweh told him to do. Abram was 75 years old when he left there along with his wife, Sarai, and his nephew, Lot.
5 亞伯蘭將他妻子撒萊和姪兒羅得，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。
Abram also took along all the possessions and slaves that they had accumulated/acquired in Haran [town], and they left there and went to Canaan land.
6 亞伯蘭經過那地，到了示劍地方、摩利橡樹那裏。那時迦南人住在那地。
In Canaan they traveled as far as Shechem [town] and camped by a huge tree called the tree of Moreh. The Canaan people-group were still living in that land.
7 耶和華向亞伯蘭顯現，說：「我要把這地賜給你的後裔。」亞伯蘭就在那裏為向他顯現的耶和華築了一座壇。
Then Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I will give this land to your descendants.” Then Abram built a stone altar to offer a sacrifice to Yahweh because Yahweh had appeared to him.
8 從那裏他又遷到伯特利東邊的山，支搭帳棚；西邊是伯特利，東邊是艾。他在那裏又為耶和華築了一座壇，求告耶和華的名。
From Shechem, Abram and his family traveled to the hills that were east of Bethel [town]. Bethel [town] was to the west of where they set up their tent, and Ai [town] was further to the east. There he built another stone altar and offered a sacrifice and worshiped Yahweh there.
9 後來亞伯蘭又漸漸遷往南地去。
Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev [Desert].
10 那地遭遇饑荒。因饑荒甚大，亞伯蘭就下埃及去，要在那裏暫居。
There was (a famine/very little food to eat) in Canaan, so they went south to live in Egypt for a while.
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。
Just as they were about to enter Egypt, Abram said to his wife Sarai, “Listen, I know that you are a very beautiful woman.
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。
When the people in Egypt see you, they will say, ‘This woman is his wife!’ and they will kill me in order to get you, but they will not kill you.
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。」
So I ask you to tell them that you are my sister, so that because of you telling them that, they will (spare my life/not kill me).”
14 及至亞伯蘭到了埃及，埃及人看見那婦人極其美貌。
And as soon as they arrived in Egypt, the people in Egypt saw that his wife was indeed very beautiful.
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。
When the king’s officials saw her, they told the king how beautiful she was. And they took her to the king’s palace.
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。
The king treated Abram kindly because of Sarai, and he gave Abram many sheep and cattle and donkeys and male and female slaves and camels.
17 耶和華因亞伯蘭妻子撒萊的緣故，降大災與法老和他的全家。
But because the king had taken Sarai, Abram’s wife, Yahweh caused the king and the others in his household to be inflicted with terrible diseases.
18 法老就召了亞伯蘭來，說：「你這向我做的是甚麼事呢？為甚麼沒有告訴我她是你的妻子？
When the king realized why that was happening, he summoned Abram and said to him, “Why did you do this to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
19 為甚麼說她是你的妹子，以致我把她取來要作我的妻子？現在你的妻子在這裏，可以帶她走吧。」
Why did you lie, saying she is your sister, with the result that I took her to be my wife? You should not have done that! So now take your wife, leave here and go!”
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。
Then the king told his officials/servants to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
