圣经故事（7）：Finding Shelter in Egypt
The Lord said to Abram, ‘Leave your own country, your kinsmen, and your father's house, and go to a country that a I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you and make your name so great that it shall be used in blessings：
Those that bless you I will bless,those that curse you, I will execrate.All the families on earth will pray to be blessed as you are blessed.'And so Abram set out as the Lord had bidden him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Harran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the property they had collected, and all the dependants they had acquired in Harran, and they started on their journey to Canaan.
There came a famine in the land, so severe that Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while. When he was approaching Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, ‘I know very well that you are a beautiful woman, and that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, “She is his wife”； then they will kill me but let you live. Tell them that you are my sister, so that all may go well with me because of you and my life may be spared on your account.'When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she was indeed very beautiful. Pharaoh's courtiers saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's household. He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram came to possess sheep and cattle and asses, male and female slaves, she-asses, and camels. But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with grave diseases on account of Abram's wife Sarai. Pharaoh summoned Abram and said to him, 'Why have you treated me like this？ why did you say that she was your sister, so that I took her as a wife？ Here she is ： take her and be gone.' Then Pharaoh gave his men orders, and they sent Abram away with his wife and all that he had .
寄居埃及
（挪亚有一个后代叫他拉，他有三个儿子：亚伯兰、拿鹤和哈兰。亚伯兰娶妻叫撒莱。撒莱没有生育。后来他拉带亚伯兰、撒莱等去迦南，途中在哈兰的地方暂住。他拉就是在哈兰去世的）。
天主对亚伯兰说：“离开你的家乡，你的亲人和你父亲的家，到一个我指引你去的地方。我要使你建邦立国；我要赐福于你，使你名声显赫。这样你的名字就成了祝福之词：我将祝福那些祝福你的人，我也将诅咒那些诅咒你的人。世上家家都将祈求会得到对你那样的祝福。”
这样亚伯兰就按上帝的意旨动身。亚伯兰离开哈兰时是七十五岁。他带着妻子撒莱，侄子罗得及他们在哈兰积蓄的全部财产和侍从人等，动身去迦南。
后来，迦南发生饥荒，灾情十分严重，亚伯兰不得不去埃及暂住。当他们快到埃及时，他对妻子撒莱说：“我深知你是个美丽的女人，埃及人见到你就会说：”这是那人的妻子，'他们就会杀死我而留下你。你要告诉他们你是我的妹妹，这样我就平安了。看你份上他们会饶我一命的。“亚伯兰到达了埃及，埃及人看到撒莱的确十分美丽。法老的臣子看见她，就把她举荐给法老，于是她就被带去收进法老的内宫中。法老为了她对亚伯兰就很好。亚伯兰得到赏赐许多羊、牛、驴和男女奴仆，还有母驴和骆驼。但是因为亚伯兰妻子撒莱缘故，天主降疫灾于法老一家。法老叫亚伯兰来对他说：”你为什么瞒着我？为什么不告诉我她是你的妻子？为什么说她是你的妹妹，使我收她为妻？喏，你把她带走吧。“法老命令他的下人把亚伯兰连同他的妻子及他所有的财物一起赶走。
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