Yaratılış 12

¹Ve Rab Avram'a, "Kendi ülkenden, akrabalarının arasından ve babanın evinden çıkıp git ve sana göstereceğim ülkeye gel" dedi.

²"Seni büyük bir ulus yapacağım, seni kutsayacağım, adını yücelteceğim ve sen kutsanmış olacaksın.

³Seni kutsayanları kutsayacağım, seni lanetleyenleri ise lanetleyeceğim; yeryüzünün bütün kabileleri senin aracılığınla kutsanacak."

⁴Avram, Rab'bin kendisine söylediği gibi yola koyuldu ve Lut da onunla birlikte gitti. Avram Harran'dan çıktığı zaman yetmiş beş yaşındaydı.

⁵Avram karısı Sara'yı, kardeşinin oğlu Lut'u, edindikleri bütün varlıkları ve Harran'da kazandıkları bütün canları yanına alarak Kenan ülkesine gitmek üzere yola çıktı ve oraya vardılar.

⁶Avram ülkeyi boydan boya geçerek Şekem bölgesindeki yüksek meşe ağacının olduğu yere kadar geldi. O dönemde ülkede Kenanlılar yaşıyordu.

⁷Rab Avram'a göründü ve "Bu toprağı senin soyuna vereceğim" dedi. Avram da orada kendisine görünen Rab'be bir sunak inşa etti.

⁸Oradan Beytel'in doğusundaki dağlık bölgeye geçerek çadırını kurdu; batısında Beytel, doğusunda ise Aggai şehri vardı. Orada Rab'be bir sunak yaptı ve Rab'bin adını anarak yakardı.

⁹Sonra Avram göç etmeye devam ederek ilerledi ve çölde konakladı.

¹⁰Ülkede kıtlık baş gösterdi. Kıtlık ülkede çok şiddetlendiği için Avram geçici bir süre kalmak üzere Mısır'a gitti.

¹¹Mısır'a girmek üzereyken karısı Sara'ya şöyle dedi: "Biliyorum ki sen güzel yüzlü bir kadınsın.

¹²Öyle olacak ki, Mısırlılar seni gördüklerinde, 'Bu onun karısıdır' diyecekler; beni öldürecekler, seni ise kendilerine saklayacaklar.

¹³Lütfen, 'Onun kız kardeşiyim' de ki, senin sayende bana iyi davranılsın ve senin sayende canım yaşasın."

¹⁴Avram Mısır'a girdiğinde, Mısırlılar kadının gerçekten aşırı derecede güzel olduğunu gördüler.

¹⁵Firavun'un yöneticileri de onu gördüler ve Firavun'un huzurunda onu övdüler; böylece kadın Firavun'un sarayına alındı.

¹⁶Onun yüzünden Avram'a iyi davrandılar; Avram'ın koyunları, buzağıları, eşekleri, erkek ve kız hizmetkarları, katırları ve develeri oldu.

¹⁷Ancak Tanrı, Avram'ın karısı Sara yüzünden Firavun'u ve saray halkını büyük ve kötü sınamalarla sınadı.

¹⁸Bunun üzerine Firavun Avram'ı çağırıp şöyle dedi: "Bana bu yaptığın nedir? Neden onun karın olduğunu bana bildirmedin?

¹⁹Neden 'O benim kız kardeşimdir' dedin? Ben de onu kendime eş olarak aldım. İşte karın karşında, onu al ve hemen uzaklaş!"

²⁰Firavun adamlarına Avram hakkında buyruk verdi; böylece ona, karısına, sahip olduğu her şeye ve yanındaki Lut'a eşlik ederek onları uğurladılar.

¹ΚΑΙ εἶπε Κύριος τῷ ῞Αβραμ· ἔξελθε ἐκ τῆς γῆς σου καὶ ἐκ τῆς συγγενείας σου καὶ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός σου καὶ δεῦρο εἰς τὴν γῆν, ἣν ἄν σοι δείξω·

²καὶ ποιήσω σε εἰς ἔθνος μέγα καὶ εὐλογήσω σε καὶ μεγαλυνῶ τὸ ὄνομά σου, καὶ ἔσῃ εὐλογημένος·

³καὶ εὐλογήσω τοὺς εὐλογοῦντάς σε καὶ τοὺς καταρωμένους σε καταράσομαι· καὶ ἐνευλογηθήσονται ἐν σοὶ πᾶσαι αἱ φυλαὶ τῆς γῆς.

⁴καὶ ἐπορεύθη ῞Αβραμ, καθάπερ ἐλάλησεν αὐτῷ Κύριος, καὶ ᾤχετο μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ Λώτ. ῞Αβραμ δὲ ἦν ἐτῶν ἑβδομηκονταπέντε, ὅτε ἐξῆλθε ἐκ Χαρράν.

⁵καὶ ἔλαβεν ῞Αβραμ Σάραν τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν Λὼτ υἱὸν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῶν, ὅσα ἐκτήσαντο, καὶ πᾶσαν ψυχήν, ἣν ἐκτήσαντο ἐκ Χαρράν, καὶ ἐξήλθοσαν πορευθῆναι εἰς γῆν Χαναάν.

⁶καὶ διώδευσεν ῞Αβραμ τὴν γῆν εἰς τὸ μῆκος αὐτῆς ἕως τοῦ τόπου Συχέμ, ἐπὶ τὴν δρῦν τὴν ὑψηλήν· οἱ δὲ Χαναναῖοι τότε κατῴκουν τὴν γῆν.

⁷καὶ ὤφθη Κύριος τῷ ῞Αβραμ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· τῷ σπέρματί σου δώσω τὴν γῆν ταύτην. καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐκεῖ ῞Αβραμ θυσιαστήριον Κυρίῳ τῷ ὀφθέντι αὐτῷ.

⁸καὶ ἀπέστη ἐκεῖθεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος κατὰ ἀνατολὰς Βαιθὴλ καὶ ἔστησεν ἐκεῖ τὴν σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ, Βαιθὴλ κατὰ θάλασσαν καὶ ᾿Αγγαὶ κατὰ ἀνατολάς· καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐκεῖ θυσιαστήριον τῷ Κυρίῳ καὶ ἐπεκαλέσατο ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι Κυρίου.

⁹καὶ ἀπῇρεν ῞Αβραμ καὶ πορευθεὶς ἐστρατοπέδευσεν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.

¹⁰Καὶ ἐγένετο λιμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ κατέβη ῞Αβραμ εἰς Αἴγυπτον παροικῆσαι ἐκεῖ, ὅτι ἐνίσχυσεν ὁ λιμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.

¹¹ἐγένετο δέ, ἡνίκα ἤγγισεν ῞Αβραμ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς Αἴγυπτον, εἶπεν ῞Αβραμ Σάρᾳ τῇ γυναικί· γινώσκω ἐγώ, ὅτι γυνὴ εὐπρόσωπος εἶ·

¹²ἔσται οὖν, ὡς ἂν ἴδωσί σε οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι, ἐροῦσιν ὅτι γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ἐστιν αὐτή, καὶ ἀποκτενοῦσί με, σὲ δὲ περιποιήσονται.

¹³εἰπὸν οὖν, ὅτι ἀδελφὴ αὐτοῦ εἰμι, ὅπως ἂν εὖ μοι γένηται διὰ σέ, καὶ ζήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου ἕνεκέν σου.

¹⁴ἐγένετο δέ, ἡνίκα εἰσῆλθεν ῞Αβραμ εἰς Αἴγυπτον, ἰδόντες οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, ὅτι καλὴ ἦν σφόδρα,

¹⁵καὶ εἶδον αὐτὴν οἱ ἄρχοντες Φαραὼ καὶ ἐπῄνεσαν αὐτὴν πρὸς Φαραὼ καὶ εἰσήγαγον αὐτὴν εἰς τὸν οἶκον Φαραώ·

¹⁶καὶ τῷ ῞Αβραμ εὖ ἐχρήσαντο δι᾿ αὐτήν, καὶ ἐγένοντο αὐτῷ πρόβατα καὶ μόσχοι καὶ ὄνοι καὶ παῖδες καὶ παιδίσκαι καὶ ἡμίονοι καὶ κάμηλοι.

¹⁷καὶ ἤτασεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν Φαραὼ ἐτασμοῖς μεγάλοις καὶ πονηροῖς καὶ τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ περὶ Σάρας τῆς γυναικὸς ῞Αβραμ.

¹⁸καλέσας δὲ Φαραὼ τὸν ῞Αβραμ εἶπε· τί τοῦτο ἐποίησάς μοι, ὅτι οὐκ ἀπήγγειλάς μοι, ὅτι γυνή σου ἐστίν;

¹⁹ἱνατί εἶπας ὅτι ἀδελφή μου ἐστί; καὶ ἔλαβον αὐτὴν ἐμαυτῷ γυναῖκα, καὶ νῦν ἰδοὺ ἡ γυνή σου ἔναντί σου· λαβὼν ἀπότρεχε.

²⁰καὶ ἐνετείλατο Φαραὼ ἀνδράσι περὶ ῞Αβραμ συμπροπέμψαι αὐτὸν καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἦν αὐτῷ <καὶ Λὼτ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ>.

¹AND the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and out of the house of thy father, and come into the land which I will shew thee.

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

³And I will bless those that bless thee, and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

⁴And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Charrhan.

⁵And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Charrhan, and they went forth to go into the land of Chanaan.

⁶And Abram traversed the land lengthwise as far as the place Sychem, to the high oak, and the Chananites then inhabited the land.

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

⁸And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Baethel, and there he pitched his tent in Baethel near the sea, and Aggai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.

⁹And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.

¹⁰And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

¹¹And it came to pass when Abram drew nigh to enter into Egypt, Abram said to Sara his wife, I know that thou art a fair woman.

¹²It shall come to pass then that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall slay me, but they shall save thee alive.

¹³Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of thee, and my soul shall live because of thee.

¹⁴And it came to pass when Abram entered into Egypt-- the Egyptians having seen his wife that she was very beautiful--

¹⁵that the princes of Pharao saw her, and praised her to Pharao and brought her into the house of Pharao.

¹⁶And they treated Abram well on her account, and he had sheep, and calves, and asses, and men-servants, and women-servants, and mules, and camels.

¹⁷And God afflicted Pharao with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sara, Abram's wife.

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

¹⁹Wherefore didst thou say, She is my sister? and I took her for a wife to myself; and now, behold, thy wife is before thee, take her and go quickly away.

²⁰And Pharao gave charge to men concerning Abram, to join in sending him forward, and his wife, and all that he had <and Lot with him>.