Gênesis 12
1 O SENHOR disse a Abrão: “Sai da tua terra, e da tua parentela, e da casa de teu pai, para terra que eu te mostrarei.
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 E farei de ti uma grande nação, e te abençoarei, e engrandecerei o teu nome, e tu serás uma bênção.
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 E abençoarei os que te abençoarem, e amaldiçoarei os que te amaldiçoarem; e em ti todas as famílias da terra serão benditas.”
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 Assim se foi Abrão, como o SENHOR lhe dissera; e Ló foi com ele. Abrão tinha setenta e cinco anos de idade quando saiu de Harã.
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 E Abrão tomou a Sarai, sua mulher, e a Ló, filho de seu irmão, e todos os seus pertences que haviam ganhado, e as pessoas que eles haviam adquirido em Harã, e saíram para ir à terra de Canaã; e à terra de Canaã chegaram.
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 E passou Abrão por aquela terra até o lugar de Siquém, até o carvalho de Moré; e os cananeus estavam então na terra.
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 E o SENHOR apareceu a Abrão, e lhe disse: À tua descendência darei esta terra. E ele edificou ali um altar ao SENHOR, que lhe havia aparecido.
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 E passou-se dali a um monte ao oriente de Betel, e estendeu sua tenda, tendo a Betel ao ocidente e Ai ao oriente: e edificou ali altar ao SENHOR e invocou o nome do SENHOR.
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 E moveu Abrão dali, caminhando e indo até o Sul.
Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev [Desert].
10 E houve fome na terra, e desceu Abrão ao Egito para peregrinar ali; porque era grande a fome na terra.
There was (a famine/very little food to eat) in Canaan, so they went south to live in Egypt for a while.
11 E aconteceu que quando estava para entrar no Egito, disse a Sarai sua mulher: Eis que, agora conheço que és mulher bela à vista;
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 E será que quando te houverem visto os egípcios, dirão: Sua mulher é: e matarão a mim, e a ti te preservarão a vida.
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 Agora, pois, dize que és minha irmã, para que eu vá bem por tua causa, e viva minha alma por causa de ti.
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 E aconteceu que, quando entrou Abrão no Egito, os egípcios viram a mulher que era bela em grande maneira.
And as soon as they arrived in Egypt, the people in Egypt saw that his wife was indeed very beautiful.
15 Viram-na também os príncipes de Faraó, e a elogiaram; e foi levada a mulher a casa de Faraó:
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 E fez bem a Abrão por causa dela; e teve ovelhas, e vacas, e asnos, e servos, e criadas, e asnas e camelos.
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 Mas o SENHOR feriu a Faraó e à sua casa com grandes pragas, por causa de Sarai mulher de Abrão.
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 Então Faraó chamou a Abrão e lhe disse: Que é isto que fizeste comigo? Por que não me declaraste que era tua mulher?
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 Por que disseste: “É minha irmã”, pondo-me em risco de tomá-la para mim por mulher? Agora, pois, eis aqui tua mulher, toma-a e vai-te.
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 Então Faraó deu ordem a seus homens acerca de Abrão; e lhe acompanharam, e à sua mulher com tudo o que tinha.
Then the king told his officials/servants to take Abram and his wife and all his possessions out of Egypt.
