创世记 12
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
亚伯兰蒙 神呼召
12 耶和华对亚伯兰说：
“你要离开本地、本族、父家，
到我指示你的地方去。
2 我必使你成为大国，
赐福给你，
使你的名为大，
你也必使别人得福，
3 给你祝福的，我必赐福给他；
咒诅你的，我必咒诅他；
地上的万族，都必因你得福。”
4 亚伯兰就照着耶和华吩咐他的去了；罗得也和他同去。亚伯兰离开哈兰的时候，已经七十五岁。 5 亚伯兰带着他的妻子撒莱和侄儿罗得以及他们在哈兰所积蓄的一切财物，和所获得的人口，一同出来，要到迦南地去。后来他们到了迦南地。 6 亚伯兰穿过那地，到了示剑的地方，摩利的橡树那里。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祭坛。 8 后来他从那里迁到伯特利东边的山地，搭起帐棚。西边是伯特利，东边是艾城；他在那里也为耶和华筑了一座祭坛，呼求耶和华的名。 9 亚伯兰又起程，渐渐移到南地去。
亚伯兰下埃及
10 当时，那地发生饥荒，亚伯兰就下到埃及去，要在那里寄居；因为那地的饥荒十分严重。 11 快要到达埃及的时候，亚伯兰对他的妻子撒莱说：“看哪，我知道你是个美貌的女人。 12 埃及人看见你的时候，必会说：‘这是他的妻子’，他们就会杀我，却叫你活着。 13 请你说你是我的妹妹，使我因你的缘故可以平安无事，我的性命也可以因你的缘故得以保全。” 14 果然，亚伯兰进入埃及的时候，埃及人就注视那女人，因为她十分美丽。 15 法老的一些大臣看见了撒莱，就在法老面前称赞她；于是那女人被带进法老的宫里去。 16 亚伯兰因这女人的缘故就被优待，得了许多牛羊、公驴、母驴、仆婢和骆驼。 17 耶和华因为亚伯兰的妻子撒莱的缘故，就用严重的灾病打击法老和他的全家。 18 于是，法老把亚伯兰召了来，对他说：“你向我作的是甚么？你为甚么不告诉我她是你的妻子呢？ 19 你为甚么说她是你的妹妹，以致我娶了她作妻子呢？现在，你的妻子在这里，带她走吧！” 20 法老为了亚伯兰的事吩咐臣仆，他们就把亚伯兰和他的妻子，以及他所有的一切都送走了。
Genesis 12
EasyEnglish Bible
Abram leaves Haran
12 The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Leave your country and the people of your father's family. Go to the land that I will show you.[a]
2 I will cause your descendants to become a great nation. I will bless you. Everyone will know your name. You will bring my blessing to other people. 3 I will bless those people who bless you. But I will curse anyone who insults you. Through you, I will bless all the families of people on the earth.’[b]
4 Abram did what the Lord had told him. He left Haran. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. Lot went with him. 5 Abram took his wife Sarai, and his nephew Lot. He took everything that belonged to them. He also took the people that worked for them in Haran. They all left to go to the land of Canaan.
When they arrived in Canaan, 6 Abram walked through the land. He went as far as Shechem, to the special oak tree of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites lived in this land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram there. He said, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’ So Abram built an altar in that place to worship the Lord.[c] He did that because the Lord had appeared to him.
8 Then Abram left Shechem. He went to the hills that are on the east of Bethel. He put up his tent in that place. Bethel was towards the west, and Ai was towards the east. Abram also built an altar there to worship the Lord.
9 Then Abram took his tent and he left that place. He continued to travel towards the Negev.[d]
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10 There was a famine in the land of Canaan. So Abram went to live in Egypt for some time, because the famine was very bad.[e]
11 When Abram came near to Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, ‘Listen to me. I know that you are a very beautiful woman. 12 When the Egyptians see you they will say, “This is Abram's wife.” Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.[f] 13 So tell them that you are my sister. Then they will do good things to me, because they want to please you. They will not kill me because they will think that you are my sister.’
14 When Abram arrived in Egypt, the people saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. 15 The king's officers saw her. They told Pharaoh that she was very beautiful. They took her to the king's palace.[g]
16 Pharaoh did good things to help Abram because of Sarai. He gave Abram sheep, cows, donkeys and camels. He also gave Abram male servants and female servants.
17 But the Lord made Pharaoh and the people in his palace very ill. The Lord did this because the king had taken Abram's wife Sarai. 18 So Pharaoh called Abram to come to him. Pharaoh said, ‘You have done this bad thing to me! You did not tell me that Sarai is your wife! Why not? 19 You told me “She is my sister”. As a result, I took her to be my wife. Now, here is your wife. Take her and go away!’
20 Pharaoh told his officers what to do with Abram. They sent Abram away, with his wife and everything that belonged to them.
Footnotes
- 12:1 The Lord had said this to Abram when he lived in Ur, among the Chaldeans. See Joshua 24:2.
- 12:3 Jesus Christ is a descendant of Abram. Through Jesus, God blesses all the nations and families of people on the earth.
- 12:7 The Canaanites did not worship God. The oak tree of Moreh was a place where the Canaanites worshipped false gods. Abram built an altar to worship God. The Canaanites would see that Abram worshipped the Lord. But Abram was not afraid. He knew that this place belonged to God.
- 12:9 The Negev is a dry land. It is between Egypt and Canaan.
- 12:10 Egypt did not often have a famine because the River Nile went through the land.
- 12:12 Abram thinks that the king of Egypt might want to take Sarai as one of his wives. If he knows that Sarai is Abram's wife, the king will have to kill Abram.
- 12:15 A palace is a large house for a king.
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