¹ 亞伯蘭帶著他的妻子與羅得，並一切所有的，都從埃及上南地去。

² 亞伯蘭的金、銀、牲畜極多。

³ 他從南地漸漸往伯特利去，到了伯特利和艾的中間，就是從前支搭帳棚的地方，

⁴ 也是他起先築壇的地方；他又在那裡求告耶和華的名。

⁵ 與亞伯蘭同行的羅得也有牛群、羊群、帳棚。

⁶ 那地容不下他們；因為他們的財物甚多，使他們不能同居。

⁷ 當時，迦南人與比利洗人在那地居住。亞伯蘭的牧人和羅得的牧人相爭。

⁸ 亞伯蘭就對羅得說：你我不可相爭，你的牧人和我的牧人也不可相爭，因為我們是骨肉(原文作弟兄)。

⁹ 遍地不都在你眼前麼？請你離開我：你向左，我就向右；你向右，我就向左。

¹⁰ 羅得舉目看見約但河的全平原，直到瑣珥，都是滋潤的，那地在耶和華未滅所多瑪、蛾摩拉以先如同耶和華的園子，也像埃及地。

¹¹ 於是羅得選擇約但河的全平原，往東遷移；他們就彼此分離了。

¹² 亞伯蘭住在迦南地，羅得住在平原的城邑，漸漸挪移帳棚，直到所多瑪。

¹³ 所多瑪人在耶和華面前罪大惡極。

¹⁴ 羅得離別亞伯蘭以後，耶和華對亞伯蘭說：從你所在的地方，你舉目向東西南北觀看；

¹⁵ 凡你所看見的一切地，我都要賜給你和你的後裔，直到永遠。

¹⁶ 我也要使你的後裔如同地上的塵沙那樣多，人若能數算地上的塵沙才能數算你的後裔。

¹⁷ 你起來，縱橫走遍這地，因為我必把這地賜給你。

¹⁸ 亞伯蘭就搬了帳棚，來到希伯崙幔利的橡樹那裡居住，在那裡為耶和華築了一座壇。

¹ Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, 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 curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

⁴ So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

⁵ Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

⁶ Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

⁷ Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

⁸ He left from there 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 the name of Yahweh.

⁹ Abram traveled, going on still 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 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

¹² It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that 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 It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the 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 plagued 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 brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.