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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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上帝呼召亞伯蘭
1耶和華對亞伯蘭說：「你要離開本地、本族、父家，往我所要指示你的地去。
2我必使你成為大國，我必賜福給你，使你的名為大；你要使別人得福⚓。
3為你祝福的，我必賜福給他；詛咒你的，我必詛咒他。地上的萬族都必因你得福。」
4亞伯蘭就遵照耶和華的吩咐去了；羅得也和他同去。亞伯蘭離開哈蘭的時候年七十五歲。
5亞伯蘭帶着他妻子撒萊和姪兒羅得，以及他們在哈蘭積蓄的財物、獲得的人口，往迦南地去。他們就來到了迦南地。
6亞伯蘭經過那地，直到示劍地方，摩利橡樹那裏；當時迦南人住在那地。
7耶和華向亞伯蘭顯現，說：「我要把這地賜給你的後裔。」亞伯蘭就在那裏為向他顯現的耶和華築了一座壇。
8從那裏他又遷到伯特利東邊的山，支搭帳棚；西邊是伯特利，東邊是艾。他在那裏又為耶和華築了一座壇，求告耶和華的名。
9後來亞伯蘭漸漸遷往尼革夫⚓去。
亞伯蘭到埃及
10那地遭遇饑荒。亞伯蘭因那地的饑荒嚴重，就下到埃及，要在那裏寄居。
11將近埃及，他對妻子撒萊說：「看哪，我知道你是美貌的女人。
12埃及人看見你會說：『這是他的妻子』，他們就會殺我，卻讓你活着。
13所以，請你說你是我的妹妹，使我可以因你得平安，我的性命也因你存活。」
14亞伯蘭到達埃及時，埃及人看見那女人極其美貌。
15法老的臣僕看見了她，就在法老面前稱讚她。那女人就被帶進法老的宮中。
16法老就因她厚待亞伯蘭，給了亞伯蘭許多牛、羊、公驢、奴僕、婢女、母驢、駱駝。
17耶和華因亞伯蘭妻子撒萊的緣故，降大災擊打法老和他的全家。
18法老召了亞伯蘭來，說：「你向我做的是甚麼事呢？為甚麼沒有告訴我她是你的妻子？
19為甚麼說『她是我的妹妹』，以致我把她接來要作我的妻子呢？現在，看哪，你的妻子在這裏，帶她走吧！」
20於是法老吩咐人把亞伯蘭和他妻子，以及他一切所有的都送走了。