Genesis 12
1 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.
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 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.
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/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).”
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev [Desert].
以後亞巴郎漸漸移往乃革布區。
10 There was (a famine/very little food to eat) in Canaan, so they went south to live in Egypt for a while.
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 Just as they were about to enter Egypt, Abram said to his wife Sarai, “Listen, I know that you are a very beautiful woman.
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 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.
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 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).”
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 And as soon as they arrived in Egypt, the people in Egypt saw that his wife was indeed 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 When the king’s officials saw her, they told the king how beautiful she was. And they took her to the king’s palace.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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?
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 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!”
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 Then the king told his officials/servants to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
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。
