Yaratiliş 20
1 İbrahim Mamre'den Negev'e göçerek Kadeş ve Şur kentlerinin arasına yerleşti. Sonra geçici bir süre Gerar'da kaldı.
Abraham left Mamre and moved southwest to the Negev desert and lived in a place named Gerar, between Kadesh and Shur.
2 Karısı Sara için, “Bu kadın kızkardeşimdir” dedi. Bunun üzerine Gerar Kralı Avimelek adam gönderip Sara'yı getirtti.
While he was there, he told people that Sarah was his sister, not his wife. Then King Abimelech of Gerar sent some of his men to Sarah, and they brought her to him to be his wife.
3 Ama Tanrı gece düşünde Avimelek'e görünerek, “Bu kadını aldığın için öleceksin” dedi, “Çünkü o evli bir kadın.”
But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream during the night and said to him, “Listen to me! You are going to die because the woman you took is another man’s wife.”
4 Avimelek henüz Sara'ya dokunmamıştı. “Ya Rab” dedi, “Suçsuz bir ulusu mu yok edeceksin?
But Abimelech had not had sex [EUP] with her, so he said, “God, since the people of my nation and I am innocent; will you kill me?
5 İbrahim'in kendisi bana, ‘Bu kadın kızkardeşimdir’ demedi mi? Kadın da İbrahim için, ‘O kardeşimdir’ dedi. Ben temiz vicdanla, suçsuz ellerimle yaptım bunu.”
He told me, ‘She is my sister,’ and she also said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this with pure motives and I [SYN] have not done anything wrong yet.”
6 Tanrı, düşünde ona, “Bunu temiz vicdanla yaptığını biliyorum” diye yanıtladı, “Ben de seni bu yüzden bana karşı günah işlemekten alıkoydum, kadına dokunmana izin vermedim.
God said to him in another dream, “Yes, I know that your motives were pure. That is why I truly prevented you from sinning against me. I did not allow you to have sex [EUP] with her.
7 Şimdi kadını kocasına geri ver. Çünkü o bir peygamberdir. Senin için dua eder, ölmezsin. Ama kadını geri vermezsen, sen de sana ait olan herkes de ölecek, bilesin.”
Now, return this man’s wife to her husband, because he is (a prophet/a man who receives messages from me). He will pray for you, and you will (remain alive/not die). But if you do not return her to him, you will certainly die, and all the members of your household will also certainly die.”
8 Avimelek sabah erkenden kalktı, bütün adamlarını çağırarak olup biteni anlattı. Adamlar dehşete düştü.
Early the next morning, Abimelech summoned all his officials, and told them everything that had happened. When they heard that [MTY], his men were very afraid [that God would punish them].
9 Avimelek İbrahim'i çağırtarak, “Ne yaptın bize?” dedi, “Sana ne haksızlık ettim ki, beni ve krallığımı bu büyük günaha sürükledin? Bana bu yaptığın yapılacak iş değil.”
Abimelech then summoned Abraham, and said to him, “You should not have done that to us [RHQ]! Did I do something wrong to you, with the result that you are causing me and the people in [MTY] my kingdom to be guilty of committing a great sin [RHQ]? You have done things to me that (should not be done/you should not have done)!”
10 Sonra, “Amacın neydi, niçin yaptın bunu?” diye sordu.
Abimelech asked Abraham, “What was your reason for doing this?”
11 İbrahim, “Çünkü burada hiç Tanrı korkusu yok” diye yanıtladı, “Karım yüzünden beni öldürebilirler diye düşündüm.
Abraham replied, “I said that because I thought, ‘They certainly do not respect God in this place. If they don’t respect God, they will not respect relationships with others. [If I say she is my sister, they will try to pay me a bride price] to get her. But if I say she is my wife, they will kill me to get her.’
12 Üstelik, Sara gerçekten kızkardeşimdir. Babamız bir, annemiz ayrıdır. Onunla evlendim.
Besides, she really [can be considered] my sister, because she is the daughter of my father, although she is not the daughter of my mother. She is the daughter of another woman, and I married her.
13 Tanrı beni babamın evinden gurbete gönderdiği zaman karıma, ‘Bana sevgini şöyle göstereceksin: Gideceğimiz her yerde kardeşin olduğumu söyle’ dedim.”
Later, when God told me to move away from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is the way you can show that you love me: Everywhere we go, say about me, “This is my brother.”’”
14 Avimelek İbrahim'e karısı Sara'yı geri verdi. Bunun yanısıra ona davar, sığır, köleler, cariyeler de verdi.
So Abimelech brought some sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham. And he returned his wife Sarah to him.
15 İbrahim'e, “İşte ülkem önünde, nereye istersen oraya yerleş” dedi.
And Abimelech said to him, “Look! All my land is here in front of you. Live in whatever place you like!”
16 Sara'ya da, “Kardeşine bin parça gümüş veriyorum” dedi, “Yanındakilere karşı senin suçsuz olduğunu gösteren bir kanıttır bu. Herkes suçsuz olduğunu bilsin.”
And he said to Sarah, “Look here, I am giving 1,000 pieces of silver to your brother. This is to insure that no one will [bring up this matter again and] say that I have done something wrong. [EUP, IDM]”
17 İbrahim Tanrı'ya dua etti ve Tanrı Avimelek'le karısına, cariyelerine şifa verdi. Çocuk sahibi oldular.
Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech’s wife and his slave girls so that they could become pregnant.
18 Çünkü İbrahim'in karısı Sara yüzünden RAB Avimelek'in evindeki kadınların hamile kalmasını engellemişti.
This was because Yahweh had caused it to be impossible for any of the women in Abimelech’s household to bear children, because Abimelech had taken Abraham’s wife Sarah.
