圣經故事（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
（挪亞有一個后代叫他拉，他有三個兒子：亞伯蘭、拿鶴和哈蘭。亞伯蘭娶妻叫撒萊。撒萊沒有生育。后來他拉帶亞伯蘭、撒萊等去迦南，途中在哈蘭的地方暫住。他拉就是在哈蘭去世的）。
天主對亞伯蘭說：“離開你的家鄉，你的親人和你父親的家，到一個我指引你去的地方。我要使你建邦立國；我要賜福于你，使你名聲顯赫。這樣你的名字就成了祝福之詞：我將祝福那些祝福你的人，我也將詛咒那些詛咒你的人。世上家家都將祈求會得到對你那樣的祝福。”
這樣亞伯蘭就按上帝的意旨動身。亞伯蘭離開哈蘭時是七十五歲。他帶著妻子撒萊，侄子羅得及他們在哈蘭積蓄的全部財產和侍從人等，動身去迦南。
后來，迦南發生饑荒，災情十分嚴重，亞伯蘭不得不去埃及暫住。當他們快到埃及時，他對妻子撒萊說：“我深知你是個美麗的女人，埃及人見到你就會說：”這是那人的妻子，'他們就會殺死我而留下你。你要告訴他們你是我的妹妹，這樣我就平安了。看你份上他們會饒我一命的。“亞伯蘭到達了埃及，埃及人看到撒萊的確十分美麗。法老的臣子看見她，就把她舉薦給法老，于是她就被帶去收進法老的內宮中。法老為了她對亞伯蘭就很好。亞伯蘭得到賞賜許多羊、牛、驢和男女奴仆，還有母驢和駱駝。但是因為亞伯蘭妻子撒萊緣故，天主降疫災于法老一家。法老叫亞伯蘭來對他說：”你為什么瞞著我？為什么不告訴我她是你的妻子？為什么說她是你的妹妹，使我收她為妻？喏，你把她帶走吧。“法老命令他的下人把亞伯蘭連同他的妻子及他所有的財物一起趕走。
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