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Promises to Abram

¹Now the ⚓Lord had said to Abram:
“Get ⚓out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
²⚓I will make you a great nation;
⚓I will bless you
And make your name great;
⚓And you shall be a blessing.
³⚓I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in ⚓you all the families of the earth shall be ⚓blessed.”
⁴So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and ⚓the people whom they had acquired in ⚓Haran, and they ⚓departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶Abram ⚓passed through the land to the place of Shechem, ⚓as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. ⚓And the Canaanites were then in the land.
⁷⚓Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ⚓“To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an ⚓altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. ⁸And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and ⚓called on the name of the Lord. ⁹So Abram journeyed, ⚓going on still toward the South.

Abram in Egypt

¹⁰Now there was ⚓a famine in the land, and Abram ⚓went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was⚓severe in the land. ¹¹And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are⚓a woman of beautiful countenance. ¹²Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they ⚓will kill me, but they will let you live. ¹³⚓Please say you are my ⚓sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you.”
¹⁴So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. ¹⁵The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house. ¹⁶He ⚓treated Abram well for her sake. He ⚓had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
¹⁷But the Lord⚓plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. ¹⁸And Pharaoh called Abram and said, ⚓“What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? ¹⁹Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now therefore, here is your wife; take her and go your way.” ²⁰⚓So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.

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Tin-Hungh Heuc Apc^laam Cuotv Jauv

¹Ziouv gorngv mbuox Apc^laam, “Oix zuqc leih nqoi meih nyei buonv-deic, meih nyei cien-ceqv caux meih nyei die nyei biauv mingh taux yie oix bun meih hiuv nyei deic-bung.⚓
²Yie oix ceix fuqv bun meih,
bun meih zoux yietc fingx hlo nyei mienh.
Yie oix bun meih maaih mengh hoc.
Meih yaac haih bun mienh duqv fuqv.⚓
³Haaix dauh buang waac meih,
yie ziouc ceix fuqv bun wuov dauh.
Haaix dauh zioux meih,
yie oix zioux wuov dauh.
Weic meih yie oix ceix fuqv bun
lungh ndiev fingx-fingx mienh.”⚓
⁴Apc^laam ziouc ziux Ziouv nyei waac cuotv jauv. Lotv yaac caux jienv mingh. Cuotv Haalaan wuov zanc Apc^laam duqv cietv ziepc hmz hnyangx. ⁵Apc^laam dorh jienv ninh nyei auv, Saalaai, caux ninh nyei fun, Lotv, liemh ninh yiem Haalaan zornc daaih nyei nyungc-nyungc ga'naaiv caux duqv daaih nyei dauh dauh mienh cuotv jauv mingh Kaa^naa^an Deic-Bung. Ninh mbuo ziouc mingh taux Kaa^naa^an mi'aqv.
⁶Apc^laam gan jienv deic-bung jiex taux Sekem Zingh, taux diuh domh mba'ong zuei ndiangx, Mo^le wuov. Wuov zanc Kaa^naa^an Mienh yiem jienv wuov norm deic-bung nyei. ⁷Ziouv hinc cuotv daaih gorngv mbuox Apc^laam, “Naaiv norm deic-bung yie oix jiu bun meih nyei fun-faqv.”⚓ Apc^laam ziouc ceix norm ziec-dorngh daaih ziec dongh hinc cuotv bun ninh buatc wuov dauh Ziouv.
⁸Nqa'haav Apc^laam aengx suiv mingh taux Mbetc^en Zingh nyei dong bung maengx, mbong-aiv nyei dorngx, corng ndopv-liuh. Mbetc^en Zingh yiem ninh mbuo nyei fai bung, Ai Zingh yiem ninh mbuo nyei dong bung. Yiem wuov ninh aengx ceix norm ziec-dorngh daaih gorngv cuotv Ziouv nyei mbuox zaangc Ziouv. ⁹Apc^laam aengx cuotv jauv hungx jienv ⟨Negepc⟩ mingh.

Apc^laam Yiem I^yipv Deic-Bung

¹⁰Kaa^naa^an Deic-Bung buangh zuqc domh huaang domh ngorc. Mienh ngorc duqv kouv haic, Apc^laam ziouc mingh yiem douc I^yipv Deic-Bung.⚓ ¹¹Aav lamh deix bieqc I^yipv Deic-Bung wuov zanc, Apc^laam gorngv mbuox ninh nyei auv, Saalaai, “Yie hiuv duqv meih se nzueic haic nyei m'sieqv dorn. ¹²I^yipv Mienh buatc meih, ninh mbuo ziouc gorngv, ‘Naaiv se ninh nyei auv,’ ziouc daix yie mv baac liouh meih. ¹³Meih oix zuqc mbuox ninh mbuo meih zoux yie nyei muoc,⚓ ninh mbuo ziouc weic meih zoux longx bun yie yaac weic meih liouh yie nyei maengc.”⚓
¹⁴Apc^laam bieqc I^yipv Deic-Bung wuov zanc, I^yipv Mienh buatc ninh nyei auv za'gengh nzueic haic. ¹⁵⟨Faalo Hungh⟩ nyei jien buatc liuz Saalaai ziouc mingh ceng bun hungh diex muangx. Nqa'haav dorh Saalaai mingh yiem hungh diex nyei dinc. ¹⁶Weic Saalaai, hungh diex zoux longx bun Apc^laam. Apc^laam duqv ngongh, duqv ba'gi yungh, lorh gouv lorh nyeiz, nouh gauv nouh beiz caux lorh torh.
¹⁷Mv baac laaix Apc^laam nyei auv, Saalaai, Ziouv bun hungh diex caux ninh nyei biauv zong mienh butv ciouv haic nyei baengc. ¹⁸Hungh diex heuc Apc^laam daaih ziouc gorngv, “Meih weic haaix diuc hnangv naaiv nor zoux bun yie? Meih fungc maiv gorngv zaqc ninh zoux meih nyei auv? ¹⁹Meih weic haaix diuc gorngv ninh zoux meih nyei muoc, nduov yie dorh daaih zoux yie nyei auv? Naaiv meih nyei auv. Dorh jienv ninh mingh aqv.” ²⁰Hungh diex yaac paaiv ninh nyei mienh dorh Apc^laam caux ninh nyei auv, liemh ninh nyei nyungc-nyungc ga'naaiv, cuotv deic-bung.