Genesis 12
1 Dixit autem Dominus ad Abram: Egredere de terra tua, et de cognatione tua, et de domo patris tui, et veni in terram, quam monstravero tibi.
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 Faciamque te in gentem magnam, et benedicam tibi, et magnificabo nomen tuum, erisque benedictus.
And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing.
3 Benedicam benedicentibus tibi, et maledicam maledicentibus tibi, atque IN TE benedicentur universae cognationes terrae.
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 Egressus est itaque Abram sicut praeceperat ei Dominus, et ivit cum eo Lot: septuaginta quinque annorum erat Abram cum egrederetur de Haran.
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 Tulitque Sarai uxorem suam, et Lot filium fratris sui, universamque substantiam quam possederant, et animas quas fecerant in Haran: et egressi sunt ut irent in terram Chanaan. Cumque venissent in eam,
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 pertransivit Abram terram usque ad locum Sichem, et usque ad convallem illustrem: Chananaeus autem tunc erat in terra.
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 Apparuit autem Dominus Abram, et dixit ei: Semini tuo dabo terram hanc. Qui aedificavit ibi altare Domino, qui apparuerat ei.
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 Et inde transgrediens ad montem, qui erat contra orientem Bethel, tetendit ibi tabernaculum suum, ab occidente habens Bethel, et ab oriente Hai: aedificavit quoque ibi altare Domino, et invocavit nomen eius.
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 Perrexitque Abram vadens, et ultra progrediens ad meridiem.
And Abram journeys, going on and journeying toward the south.
10 Facta est autem fames in terra: descenditque Abram in Aegyptum, ut peregrinaretur ibi: praevaluerat enim fames in terra.
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 Cumque prope esset ut ingrederetur Aegyptum, dixit Sarai uxori suae: Novi quod pulchra sis mulier:
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 et quod cum viderint te Aegyptii, dicturi sunt: Uxor illius est: et interficient me, et te reservabunt.
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 Dic ergo, obsecro te, quod soror mea sis: ut bene sit mihi propter te, et vivat anima mea ob gratiam tui.
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 Cum itaque ingressus esset Abram Aegyptum, viderunt Aegyptii mulierem quod esset pulchra nimis.
And it comes to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceedingly beautiful;
15 Et nunciaverunt principes Pharaoni, et laudaverunt eam apud illum: et sublata est mulier in domum Pharaonis.
and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her to Pharaoh, and the woman is taken [to] Pharaoh’s house;
16 Abram vero bene usi sunt propter illam: Fueruntque ei oves et boves, et asini, et servi et famulae, et asinae et cameli.
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 Flagellavit autem Dominus Pharaonem plagis maximis, et domum eius propter Sarai uxorem Abram.
And YHWH plagues Pharaoh and his house—great plagues—for the matter of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
18 Vocavitque Pharao Abram, et dixit ei: Quidnam est hoc quod fecisti mihi? quare non indicasti quod uxor tua esset?
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 Quam ob causam dixisti esse sororem tuam, ut tollerem eam mihi in uxorem? Nunc igitur ecce coniux tua, accipe eam, et vade.
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 Praecepitque Pharao super Abram viris: et deduxerunt eum, et uxorem illius, et omnia quae habebat.
And Pharaoh charges men concerning him, and they send him away, and his wife, and all that he has.
