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.
Now Yahweh disse a Abram: “Deixe seu país, e seus parentes, e a casa de seu pai, e vá para a terra que eu lhe mostrarei”.
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.
Vou fazer de vocês uma grande nação. Eu o abençoarei e farei de seu nome uma grande nação”. Vocês serão uma bênção.
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).”
Abençoarei aqueles que te abençoarem e amaldiçoarei aquele que te tratar com desprezo. Todas as famílias da terra serão abençoadas através de vocês”.
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.
Então Abram foi, como Yahweh lhe havia dito. Muita coisa foi com ele. Abram tinha setenta e cinco anos de idade quando partiu de Haran.
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.
Abram levou para a terra de Canaã Sarai sua esposa, o filho de Lot seu irmão, todos os seus bens que haviam reunido, e as pessoas que haviam adquirido em Harã, e eles foram para a terra de Canaã. Eles entraram na terra de Canaã.
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.
Abram passou pela terra até o lugar de Shechem, até o carvalho de Moreh. Naquela época, os cananeus estavam na terra.
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.
Yahweh apareceu a Abram e disse: “Darei esta terra aos seus descendentes”. Ele construiu ali um altar para Yahweh, que lhe aparecera.
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.
Ele partiu dali para ir para a montanha ao leste de Betel e armou sua tenda, tendo Betel ao oeste, e Ai ao leste. Lá ele construiu um altar para Iavé e invocou o nome de Iavé.
9 Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev [Desert].
Abram viajou, continuando em direção ao Sul.
10 There was (a famine/very little food to eat) in Canaan, so they went south to live in Egypt for a while.
Havia uma fome na terra. Abram foi para o Egito para viver como estrangeiro lá, pois a fome era severa na terra.
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.
Quando chegou perto de entrar no Egito, disse a Sarai sua esposa: “Veja agora, eu sei que você é uma bela mulher para se olhar.
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.
Acontecerá que quando os egípcios o virem, dirão: “Esta é sua esposa”. Eles vão me matar, mas vão te salvar vivo.
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).”
Por favor, diga que você é minha irmã, que pode estar bem comigo por você, e que minha alma pode viver por sua causa”.
14 And as soon as they arrived in Egypt, the people in Egypt saw that his wife was indeed very beautiful.
Quando Abram chegou ao Egito, os egípcios viram que a mulher era muito bonita.
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.
Os príncipes do faraó a viram e a elogiaram ao faraó; e a mulher foi levada para a casa do faraó.
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.
Ele lidou bem com Abrão por causa dela. Ele tinha ovelhas, gado, burros machos, servos machos, servas, burros fêmeas e camelos.
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.
Yahweh afligiu o faraó e sua casa com grandes pragas por causa de Sarai, a esposa de Abram.
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?
O Faraó chamou Abram e disse: “O que é isso que você fez comigo? Por que você não me disse que ela era sua esposa?
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!”
Por que você disse: “Ela é minha irmã”, para que eu a aceitasse como minha esposa? Agora, portanto, veja sua esposa, leve-a, e siga seu caminho”.
20 Then the king told his officials/servants to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
O Faraó comandou homens a seu respeito, e eles o acompanharam com sua esposa e tudo o que ele tinha.
