¹ 耶和華對亞伯蘭說：你要離開本地、本族、父家，往我所要指示你的地去。

² 我必叫你成為大國。我必賜福給你，叫你的名為大；你也要叫別人得福。

³ 為你祝福的，我必賜福與他；那咒詛你的，我必咒詛他。地上的萬族都要因你得福。

⁴ 亞伯蘭就照著耶和華的吩咐去了；羅得也和他同去。亞伯蘭出哈蘭的時候年七十五歲。

⁵ 亞伯蘭將他妻子撒萊和姪兒羅得，連他們在哈蘭所積蓄的財物、所得的人口，都帶往迦南地去。他們就到了迦南地。

⁶ 亞伯蘭經過那地，到了示劍地方、摩利橡樹那裡。那時迦南人住在那地。

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壇。

⁸ 從那裡他又遷到伯特利東邊的山，支搭帳棚；西邊是伯特利，東邊是艾。他在那裡又為耶和華築了一座壇，求告耶和華的名。

⁹ 後來亞伯蘭又漸漸遷往南地去。

¹⁰ 那地遭遇饑荒。因饑荒甚大，亞伯蘭就下埃及去，要在那裡暫居。

¹¹ 將近埃及，就對他妻子撒萊說：我知道你是容貌俊美的婦人。

¹² 埃及人看見你必說：這是他的妻子，他們就要殺我，卻叫你存活。

¹³ 求你說，你是我的妹子，使我因你得平安，我的命也因你存活。

¹⁴ 及至亞伯蘭到了埃及，埃及人看見那婦人極其美貌。

¹⁵ 法老的臣宰看見了他，就在法老面前誇獎他。那婦人就被帶進法老的宮去。

¹⁶ 法老因這婦人就厚待亞伯蘭，亞伯蘭得了許多牛、羊、駱駝、公驢、母驢、僕婢。

¹⁷ 耶和華因亞伯蘭妻子撒萊的緣故，降大災與法老和他的全家。

¹⁸ 法老就召了亞伯蘭來，說：你這向我作的是甚麼事呢？為甚麼沒有告訴我他是你的妻子？

¹⁹ 為甚麼說他是你的妹子，以致我把他取來要作我的妻子？現在你的妻子在這裡，可以帶他走罷。

²⁰ 於是法老吩咐人將亞伯蘭和他妻子，並他所有的都送走了。

¹ Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

² Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

³ He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

⁴ to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

⁵ Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

⁶ The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

⁷ There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.

⁸ Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

⁹ Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

¹⁰ Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

¹¹ So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

¹² Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

¹³ Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

¹⁴ Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

¹⁵ for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

¹⁶ I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

¹⁸ Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.