Génesis 12

1Dijo Yahvé a Abram: “Sal de tu tierra, y de tu parentela, y de la casa de tu padre, al país que Yo te mostraré.

2Pues de ti haré una nación grande y te bendeciré; haré grande tu nombre, y serás una bendición.

3Bendeciré a quienes te bendigan y maldeciré a quienes te maldigan; y en ti serán benditas todas las tribus de la tierra.”

4Marchó, pues, Abram, como se lo había mandado Yahvé; y con él partió Lot. Tenía Abram setenta y cinco años cuando salió de Harán.

5Tomó Abran a Sarai su mujer, y a Lot, hijo de su hermano, con toda la hacienda que poseían, y con las familias que habían procreado en Harán. Partieron para dirigirse a la tierra de Canaán y llegaron a la tierra de Canaán.

6Atravesó Abran el país hasta el lugar de Siquem, hasta la encina de Moré.

7Entonces se apareció Yahvé a Abram y dijo: “A tu descendencia daré esta tierra.” Allí erigió un altar a Yahvé que se le había aparecido.

8Pasó de allí a la montaña, al oriente de Betel, donde asentó su tienda, teniendo a Betel al occidente y Hai al oriente. Allí construyó un altar a Yahvé en invocó el nombre de Yahvé.

9Después levantó Abram su tienda y se dirigió en etapas hacia el Négueb.

10Mas hubo hambre en el país, por lo cual Abram bajó a Egipto para morar allí, pues era grande el hambre en el país.

11Estando ya próximo a entrar en Egipto, dijo a Sarai, su mujer: “Mira, yo sé que eres mujer hermosa;

12por eso, cuando te vean los egipcios, dirán: “Esta es su mujer”; y me matarán a mí, y a ti te dejarán la vida.”

13Di, pues, te ruego, que eres mi hermana, a fin de que me vaya bien por causa tuya, y sea salva mi vida por amor de ti.”

14Efectivamente, cuando Abram entró en Egipto, vieron los egipcios que la mujer era muy hermosa.

15Viéronla también los cortesanos del Faraón, los cuales se la alabaron al Faraón, de modo que la mujer fue llevada al palacio del Faraón.

16Este trató a Abram muy bien por causa de ella; y se le dieron ovejas y ganados y asnos y siervos y siervas y asnas y camellos.

17Mas Yahvé hirió al Faraón con grandes plagas, a él y a su casa, por Sarai, la mujer de Abram.

18Entonces llamó el Faraón a Abram, y le dijo: “¿Qué es lo que has hecho conmigo? ¿Por qué no me dijiste que era tu mujer?

19¿Por qué afirmaste: “Es mi hermana”, de manera que yo la tomé por mujer? Ahora, pues, ahí tienes a tu mujer; tómala y anda.”

20Y el Faraón dio orden respecto de él a sus hombres, los cuales despidieron a él y a su mujer, con todo cuanto poseía.

1Dixit autem Dominus ad Abram: Egredere de terra tua, et de cognatione tua, et de domo patris tui, et veni in terram quam monstrabo tibi.

2Faciamque te in gentem magnam, et benedicam tibi, et magnificabo nomen tuum, erisque benedictus.

3Benedicam benedicentibus tibi, et maledicam maledicentibus tibi, atque in te benedicentur universæ cognationes terræ.

4Egressus est itaque Abram sicut præceperat ei Dominus, et ivit cum eo Lot: septuaginta quinque annorum erat Abram cum egrederetur de Haran.

5Tulitque Sarai uxorem suam, et Lot filium fratris sui, universamque substantiam quam possederant, et animas quas fecerant in Haran: et egressi sunt ut irent in terram Chanaan. Cumque venissent in eam,

6pertransivit Abram terram usque ad locum Sichem, usque ad convallem illustrem: Chananæus autem tunc erat in terra.

7Apparuit autem Dominus Abram, et dixit ei: Semini tuo dabo terram hanc. Qui ædificavit ibi altare Domino, qui apparuerat ei.

8Et inde transgrediens ad montem, qui erat contra orientem Bethel, tetendit ibi tabernaculum suum, ab occidente habens Bethel, et ab oriente Hai: ædificavit quoque ibi altare Domino, et invocavit nomen ejus.

9Perrexitque Abram vadens, et ultra progrediens ad meridiem.

10Facta est autem fames in terra: descenditque Abram in Ægyptum, ut peregrinaretur ibi: prævaluerat enim fames in terra.

11Cumque prope esset ut ingrederetur Ægyptum, dixit Sarai uxori suæ: Novi quod pulchra sis mulier:

12et quod cum viderint te Ægyptii, dicturi sunt: Uxor ipsius est: et interficient me, et te reservabunt.

13Dic ergo, obsecro te, quod soror mea sis: ut bene sit mihi propter te, et vivat anima mea ob gratiam tui.

14Cum itaque ingressus esset Abram Ægyptum, viderunt Ægyptii mulierem quod esset pulchra nimis.

15Et nuntiaverunt principes Pharaoni, et laudaverunt eam apud illum: et sublata est mulier in domum Pharaonis.

16Abram vero bene usi sunt propter illam: fueruntque ei oves et boves et asini, et servi et famulæ, et asinæ et cameli.

17Flagellavit autem Dominus Pharaonem plagis maximis, et domum ejus, propter Sarai uxorem Abram.

18Vocavitque Pharao Abram, et dixit ei: Quidnam est hoc quod fecisti mihi? quare non indicasti quod uxor tua esset?

19quam ob causam dixisti esse sororem tuam, ut tollerem eam mihi in uxorem? Nunc igitur ecce conjux tua, accipe eam, et vade.

20Præcepitque Pharao super Abram viris: et deduxerunt eum, et uxorem illius, et omnia quæ habebat.

1And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

3I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed:

4So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.

5And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,

6Abram passed through the country into the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

7And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

9And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south.

10And there came a famine in the country; and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

11And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:

12And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.

13Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.

14And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.

15And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.

16And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen, and he asses, and men servants and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.

17But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram’s wife.

18And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

19For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now, therefore, there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

20And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away, and his wife, and all that he had.