创世记 12
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
亞伯蘭蒙 神呼召
12 耶和華對亞伯蘭說：
“你要離開本地、本族、父家，
到我指示你的地方去。
2 我必使你成為大國，
賜福給你，
使你的名為大，
你也必使別人得福，
3 給你祝福的，我必賜福給他；
咒詛你的，我必咒詛他；
地上的萬族，都必因你得福。”
4 亞伯蘭就照著耶和華吩咐他的去了；羅得也和他同去。亞伯蘭離開哈蘭的時候，已經七十五歲。 5 亞伯蘭帶著他的妻子撒萊和姪兒羅得以及他們在哈蘭所積蓄的一切財物，和所獲得的人口，一同出來，要到迦南地去。後來他們到了迦南地。 6 亞伯蘭穿過那地，到了示劍的地方，摩利的橡樹那裡。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。”亞伯蘭就在那裡為向他顯現的耶和華築了一座祭壇。 8 後來他從那裡遷到伯特利東邊的山地，搭起帳棚。西邊是伯特利，東邊是艾城；他在那裡也為耶和華築了一座祭壇，呼求耶和華的名。 9 亞伯蘭又起程，漸漸移到南地去。
亞伯蘭下埃及
10 當時，那地發生饑荒，亞伯蘭就下到埃及去，要在那裡寄居；因為那地的饑荒十分嚴重。 11 快要到達埃及的時候，亞伯蘭對他的妻子撒萊說：“看哪，我知道你是個美貌的女人。 12 埃及人看見你的時候，必會說：‘這是他的妻子’，他們就會殺我，卻叫你活著。 13 請你說你是我的妹妹，使我因你的緣故可以平安無事，我的性命也可以因你的緣故得以保全。” 14 果然，亞伯蘭進入埃及的時候，埃及人就注視那女人，因為她十分美麗。 15 法老的一些大臣看見了撒萊，就在法老面前稱讚她；於是那女人被帶進法老的宮裡去。 16 亞伯蘭因這女人的緣故就被優待，得了許多牛羊、公驢、母驢、僕婢和駱駝。 17 耶和華因為亞伯蘭的妻子撒萊的緣故，就用嚴重的災病打擊法老和他的全家。 18 於是，法老把亞伯蘭召了來，對他說：“你向我作的是甚麼？你為甚麼不告訴我她是你的妻子呢？ 19 你為甚麼說她是你的妹妹，以致我娶了她作妻子呢？現在，你的妻子在這裡，帶她走吧！” 20 法老為了亞伯蘭的事吩咐臣僕，他們就把亞伯蘭和他的妻子，以及他所有的一切都送走了。
Genesis 12
The Message
Abram and Sarai
12 God told Abram: “Leave your country, your family, and your father’s home for a land that I will show you.
2-3 I’ll make you a great nation
and bless you.
I’ll make you famous;
you’ll be a blessing.
I’ll bless those who bless you;
those who curse you I’ll curse.
All the families of the Earth
will be blessed through you.”
4-6 So Abram left just as God said, and Lot left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot with him, along with all the possessions and people they had gotten in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound.
Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites occupied the land.
7 God appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your children.” Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.
8 He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God.
9 Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.
10-13 Then a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live; it was a hard famine. As he drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, “Look. We both know that you’re a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see you they’re going to say, ‘Aha! That’s his wife!’ and kill me. But they’ll let you live. Do me a favor: tell them you’re my sister. Because of you, they’ll welcome me and let me live.”
14-15 When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians took one look and saw that his wife was stunningly beautiful. Pharaoh’s princes raved over her to Pharaoh. She was taken to live with Pharaoh.
16-17 Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram’s wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.
18-19 Pharaoh called for Abram, “What’s this that you’ve done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she’s your wife? Why did you say, ‘She’s my sister’ so that I’d take her as my wife? Here’s your wife back—take her and get out!”
20 Pharaoh ordered his men to get Abram out of the country. They sent him and his wife and everything he owned on their way.
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