Genesis

神呼召亚伯兰

1耶和华对亚伯兰说：「你要离开本地、本族、父家，往我所要指示你的地去。

2我必叫你成为大国。我必赐福给你，叫你的名为大；你也要叫别人得福。

3为你祝福的，我必赐福与他；那咒诅你的，我必咒诅他。地上的万族都要因你得福。」

4亚伯兰就照着耶和华的吩咐去了；罗得也和他同去。亚伯兰出哈兰的时候年七十五岁。

5亚伯兰将他妻子撒莱和侄儿罗得，连他们在哈兰所积蓄的财物、所得的人口，都带往迦南地去。他们就到了迦南地。

6亚伯兰经过那地，到了示剑地方、摩利橡树那里。那时迦南人住在那地。

7耶和华向亚伯兰显现，说：「我要把这地赐给你的后裔。」亚伯兰就在那里为向他显现的耶和华筑了一座坛。

8从那里他又迁到伯特利东边的山，支搭帐棚；西边是伯特利，东边是艾。他在那里又为耶和华筑了一座坛，求告耶和华的名。

9后来亚伯兰又渐渐迁往南地去。

亚伯兰到埃及

10那地遭遇饥荒。因饥荒甚大，亚伯兰就下埃及去，要在那里暂居。

11将近埃及，就对他妻子撒莱说：「我知道你是容貌俊美的妇人。

12埃及人看见你必说：『这是他的妻子』，他们就要杀我，却叫你存活。

13求你说，你是我的妹子，使我因你得平安，我的命也因你存活。」

14及至亚伯兰到了埃及，埃及人看见那妇人极其美貌。

15法老的臣宰看见了她，就在法老面前夸奖她。那妇人就被带进法老的宫去。

16法老因这妇人就厚待亚伯兰，亚伯兰得了许多牛、羊、骆驼、公驴、母驴、仆婢。

17耶和华因亚伯兰妻子撒莱的缘故，降大灾与法老和他的全家。

18法老就召了亚伯兰来，说：「你这向我做的是什么事呢？为什么没有告诉我她是你的妻子？

19为什么说她是你的妹子，以致我把她取来要作我的妻子？现在你的妻子在这里，可以带她走吧。」

20于是法老吩咐人将亚伯兰和他妻子，并他所有的都送走了。

The Call of Abram

1Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

2I will make you into a great nation,and I will bless you;I will make your name great,so that you will be a blessing.

3I will bless those who bless youand curse those who curse you;and all the families of the earthwill be blessed through you.”

4So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

5And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oakof Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

7Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

8From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

9And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

Abram and Sarai in Egypt

10Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,

12and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.

13Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”

14So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

15When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.

16He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

17The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

18So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

20Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.