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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我必使你成为大国，我必赐福给你，使你的名为大；你要使别人得福⚓。
3为你祝福的，我必赐福给他；诅咒你的，我必诅咒他。地上的万族都必因你得福。”
4亚伯兰就遵照耶和华的吩咐去了；罗得也和他同去。亚伯兰离开哈兰的时候年七十五岁。
5亚伯兰带着他妻子撒莱和侄儿罗得，以及他们在哈兰积蓄的财物、获得的人口，往迦南地去。他们就来到了迦南地。
6亚伯兰经过那地，直到示剑地方，摩利橡树那里；当时迦南人住在那地。
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后来亚伯兰渐渐迁往尼革夫⚓去。
亚伯兰到埃及
10那地遭遇饥荒。亚伯兰因那地的饥荒严重，就下到埃及，要在那里寄居。
11将近埃及，他对妻子撒莱说：“看哪，我知道你是美貌的女人。
12埃及人看见你会说：‘这是他的妻子’，他们就会杀我，却让你活着。
13所以，请你说你是我的妹妹，使我可以因你得平安，我的性命也因你存活。”
14亚伯兰到达埃及时，埃及人看见那女人极其美貌。
15法老的臣仆看见了她，就在法老面前称赞她。那女人就被带进法老的宫中。
16法老就因她厚待亚伯兰，给了亚伯兰许多牛、羊、公驴、奴仆、婢女、母驴、骆驼。
17耶和华因亚伯兰妻子撒莱的缘故，降大灾击打法老和他的全家。
18法老召了亚伯兰来，说：“你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‘她是我的妹妹’，以致我把她接来要作我的妻子呢？现在 ，看哪，你的妻子在这里，带她走吧！”
20于是法老吩咐人把亚伯兰和他妻子，以及他一切所有的都送走了。