Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land where you are now living.
He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child.
God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
上帝又賜他割禮的約。於是亞伯拉罕生了以撒,第八日給他行了割禮。以撒生雅各;雅各生十二位先祖。
7:9
ወአበዊነሂቀደምትቀንኡላዕለዮሴፍወሤጥዎለብሔረግብጽወሀሎእግዚአብሔርምስሌሁ።
“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
救他脫離一切苦難,又使他在埃及王法老面前得恩典,有智慧。法老就派他作埃及國的宰相兼管全家。
7:11
ወመጽአረኃብለብሔረግብጽወበከነዓንዐቢይሕማምወኀጥኡዘይሴሰዩአበዊነ።
Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
後來埃及和迦南全地遭遇饑荒,大受艱難,我們的祖宗就絕了糧。
7:12
ወሰምዐያዕቆብከመቦእክልበብሔረግብጽወፈነዎሙለአበዊነቅድመ።
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’
第二天,遇見兩個以色列人爭鬥,就勸他們和睦,說:『你們二位是弟兄,為甚麼彼此欺負呢?』
7:27
ወይቤሎዝኩዘይዔምፆለካልኡመኑሤመከመልአከወመኰንነላዕሌነ።
But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
那欺負鄰舍的把他推開,說:『誰立你作我們的首領和審判官呢?
7:28
ወሚመትፈቅድኑትቅትለኒኪያየኒበከመቀተልኮትማልምለግብፃዊ።
Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
難道你要殺我,像昨天殺那埃及人嗎?』
7:29
ወበእንተዝነገርተኀጥአሙሴወነበረፈላሴብሔረምድያምወወለደበህየክልኤተደቂቀ።
Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
摩西聽見這話就逃走了,寄居於米甸;在那裏生了兩個兒子。
7:30
ወተፈጺሞአርብዓዓመትአስተርአዮበገዳምበደብረሲናመልአከእግዚአብሔርበነደእሳት።
“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
「過了四十年,在西奈山的曠野,有一位天使從荊棘火焰中向摩西顯現。
7:31
ወርእዮሙሴአንከረግርማሁወቀርበይጠይቆወነበቦእግዚአብሔርወይቤሎ።
When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, the voice of the Lord came to him,
I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’
“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
“Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations whom God drove out before the face of our fathers to the days of David,
Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
哪一個先知不是你們祖宗逼迫呢?他們也把預先傳說那義者要來的人殺了;如今你們又把那義者賣了,殺了。
7:53
ወነሢአክሙኦሪተበሥርዐተመላእክትኢዐቀብክሙ።
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
你們受了天使所傳的律法,竟不遵守。」
7:54
ወዘንተሰሚዖሙተምዕዑወአብደልቦሙወሐቀዩስነኒሆሙላዕሌሁ።
Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.