Gênesis 12

1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you."

4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan. 6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring."*12:7 or, seed

He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him. 8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name. 9 Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.

10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at. 12 It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive. 13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

14 When Abram had come into Egypt, some Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. 17 Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.

Te Karanga a Ihowā ki a Āperama

1 Nā, ka mea atu a Ihowā ki a Āperama, "Haere atu i tōu whenua, i roto i ōu whanaunga, i te whare anō hoki o tōu pāpā, ki te whenua e whakaaturia e ahau ki a koe.

2 Ā, ka meinga koe e ahau hei iwi nui,

ka manaakitia anō koe e ahau,

ka whakanuia anō hoki tōu ingoa;

ā, ka waiho koe hei manaakitanga.

3 Ā, ka manaaki ahau i te hunga e manaaki ana i a koe,

ka kanga hoki i te tangata e kanga ana i a koe;

ā, māu ka manaakitia ai ngā hapū katoa o te whenua."

4 Nā, haere ana a Āperama, pērā ana me tā Ihowā i kōrero ai ki a ia; i haere tahi anō a Rota i a ia. Ā, e whitu tekau mā rima ngā tau o Āperama i tōna hekenga mai i Harana. 5 Nā, ka tango a Āperama i a Harai, i tāna wahine rāua ko Rota tama a tōna teina, i ō rātou rawa katoa i whakaemi ai, i ngā mea ora katoa i whiwhi ai rātou ki Harana; ā, whakatika ana rātou, haere ana ki te whenua o Kanaana. Nā, ka tae rātou ki te whenua o Kanaana.

6 Nā, ka tika a Āperama nā waenganui o te whenua ki te wāhi o Hekeme, ki te oki i More. I taua whenua anō te Kanaani i taua wā. 7 Nā, ka puta a Ihowā ki a Āperama, ka mea, "Ka hoatu e ahau tēnei whenua ki tōu uri." Nā, ka hangā e ia tētahi āta ki reira mā Ihowā i puta mai nei ki a ia.

8 Nā, ka neke atu ia i reira ki te maunga i te rāwhiti o Pētēre, ā, ka whakatū i tōna tēneti; ko Pētēre ki te hauāuru, ko Hai ki te rāwhiti. I hangā anō e ia tētahi āta mā Ihowā ki reira, ā, karanga ana ki te ingoa o Ihowā. 9 Nā, ka tūria atu e Āperama, me te neke haere whaka te tonga.

Āperama rāua ko Harai i Īhipa

10 Ā, he matekai tō te whenua; ā, ka haere a Āperama ki raro, ki Īhipa, ki reira noho ai; he nui hoki te matekai o te whenua. 11 Ā, i a ia ka tata te tae ki Īhipa; ka mea ia ki a Harai, ki tāna wahine, "Nanā, e mōhio ana ahau he wahine ātaahua koe ki te titiro atu; 12 nā, ākuanei kei te kitenga o ngā Īhipiana i a koe, ka mea rātou, ‘Ko tāna wahine tēnei’; ā, ka patua ahau e rātou, ka whakaora hoki i a koe. 13 Me kī koe, nē, he tuahine koe nōku? Kia whiwhi ai ahau ki te pai i a koe; ā, kia ora ai tōku wairua i a koe."

14 Ā, i te taenga o Āperama ki Īhipa, ka titiro ngā Īhipiana ki te wahine, he tino ātaahua. 15 Ka kite hoki ngā rangatira a Parao i a ia, ka kōrero whakamihi mōna ki a Parao, ā, ka kawea te wahine rā ki te whare o Parao. 16 Nā, ka atawhai ia i a Āperama, he mea hoki mō te wahine; ā, ka riro i a ia he hipi, he kau, he kāihe toa, he pononga tāne, he pononga wāhine, he kāihe uha, he kāmera.

17 Nā, ka whiua e Ihowā a Parao rātou ko tōna whare, he nui ngā pakinga, mō Harai wahine a Āperama. 18 Nā, ka karanga a Parao ki a Āperama, ka mea, "He aha tēnei mahi āu ki ahau? He aha koe tē kōrero mai ai ki ahau ko tāu wahine ia? 19 Nā te aha koe i mea ai, ‘Ko tāku tuahine ia’ i tango ai ahau i a ia hei wahine māku? Nā, tāu wahine, tangohia, haere." 20 Nā, ka whakatūpato a Parao ki ngā tāngata, kei aha atu ki a ia; ā, tukua atu ana ia e rātou, me tāna wahine, me āna mea katoa.