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.
| خداوند به ابرام فرمود: «ولایت، خانه پدری و خویشاوندان خود را رها کن و به سرزمینی که من تو را بدانجا هدایت خواهم نمود برو. |
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.
| من تو را پدر امت بزرگی می‌گردانم. تو را برکت می‌دهم و نامت را بزرگ می‌سازم و تو مایه برکت خواهی بود. |
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).”
| آنانی را که تو را برکت دهند، برکت خواهم داد، و آنانی را که تو را لعنت کنند، لعنت خواهم کرد. همه مردم دنیا از تو برکت خواهند یافت.» |
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.
| پس ابرام طبق دستور خداوند، روانه شد و لوط نیز همراه او رفت. ابرام هفتاد و پنج ساله بود که حران را ترک گفت. |
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.
| او همسرش سارای و برادرزاده‌اش لوط، غلامان و تمامی دارایی خود را که در حران به دست آورده بود، برداشت و به کنعان کوچ کرد. |
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.
| وقتی به کنعان رسیدند، در کنار بلوطِ موره واقع در شکیم خیمه زدند. در آن زمان کنعانی‌ها در آن سرزمین ساکن بودند، |
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.
| آنگاه خداوند بر ابرام ظاهر شده، فرمود: «من این سرزمین را به نسل تو خواهم بخشید.» پس ابرام در آنجا مذبحی برای خداوند که بر او ظاهر شده بود، بنا کرد. |
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.
| سپس از آنجا کوچ کرده، به سرزمین کوهستانی که از طرف غرب به بیت‌ئیل و از طرف شرق به عای ختم می‌شد، رفت. ابرام در آن محل خیمه زد و مذبحی برای خداوند بنا کرده، او را پرستش نمود. |
9 Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev [Desert].
| بدین ترتیب ابرام با توقفهای پی‌درپی به سمت نِگب کوچ کرد. |
10 There was (a famine/very little food to eat) in Canaan, so they went south to live in Egypt for a while.
| ولی در آن سرزمین قحطی شد، پس ابرام به مصر رفت تا در آنجا زندگی کند. |
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.
| وقتی به مرز سرزمین مصر نزدیک شدند، ابرام به همسرش گفت: «تو زن زیبایی هستی. |
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.
| وقتی مصری‌ها تو را ببینند، خواهند گفت:”این زن اوست. او را بکشیم و زنش را تصاحب کنیم!“ |
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).”
| پس به آنها بگو تو خواهر منی، تا به خاطر تو مرا نکشند و با من به مهربانی رفتار کنند.» |
14 And as soon as they arrived in Egypt, the people in Egypt saw that his wife was indeed very beautiful.
| وقتی وارد مصر شدند، مردم آنجا دیدند که سارای زن زیبایی است. |
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.
| عده‌ای از درباریانِ فرعون، سارای را دیدند و در حضور فرعون از زیبایی او بسیار تعریف کردند. فرعون دستور داد تا او را به قصرش ببرند. |
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.
| آنگاه فرعون به خاطر سارای، هدایای فراوانی از قبیل گوسفند و گاو و شتر و الاغ و غلامان و کنیزان به ابرام بخشید. |
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.
| اما خداوند، فرعون و تمام افراد قصر او را به بلای سختی مبتلا کرد، زیرا سارای، زن ابرام را به قصر خود برده بود. |
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?
| فرعونْ ابرام را به نزد خود فرا خواند و به او گفت: «این چه کاری بود که با من کردی؟ چرا به من نگفتی که سارای زن توست؟ |
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!”
| چرا او را خواهر خود معرفی کردی تا او را به زنی بگیرم؟ حال او را بردار و از اینجا برو.» |
20 Then the king told his officials/servants to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
| آنگاه فرعون به مأموران خود دستور داد تا ابرام و همسرش را با نوکران و کنیزان و هر آنچه داشتند روانه کنند. |
