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.
7:9
ወአበዊነሂቀደምትቀንኡላዕለዮሴፍወሤጥዎለብሔረግብጽወሀሎእግዚአብሔርምስሌሁ።
「先祖嫉妒約瑟,把他賣到埃及去;上帝卻與他同在,
“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.
7:11
ወመጽአረኃብለብሔረግብጽወበከነዓንዐቢይሕማምወኀጥኡዘይሴሰዩአበዊነ።
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。
Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
7:12
ወሰምዐያዕቆብከመቦእክልበብሔረግብጽወፈነዎሙለአበዊነቅድመ።
雅各聽見在埃及有糧,就打發我們的祖宗初次往那裏去。
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?’
7:27
ወይቤሎዝኩዘይዔምፆለካልኡመኑሤመከመልአከወመኰንነላዕሌነ።
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?
But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
7:28
ወሚመትፈቅድኑትቅትለኒኪያየኒበከመቀተልኮትማልምለግብፃዊ።
難道你要殺我,像昨天殺那埃及人嗎?』
Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’
7:29
ወበእንተዝነገርተኀጥአሙሴወነበረፈላሴብሔረምድያምወወለደበህየክልኤተደቂቀ።
摩西聽見這話就逃走了,寄居於米甸;在那裏生了兩個兒子。
Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
7:30
ወተፈጺሞአርብዓዓመትአስተርአዮበገዳምበደብረሲናመልአከእግዚአብሔርበነደእሳት።
「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。
“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.
7:31
ወርእዮሙሴአንከረግርማሁወቀርበይጠይቆወነበቦእግዚአብሔርወይቤሎ።
摩西見了那異象,便覺希奇,正進前觀看的時候,有主的聲音說:
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,
7:39
ወአበዩአበዊነተአዝዞሎቱወዐለዉወሜጡልቦሙብሔረግብጽ።
我們的祖宗不肯聽從,反棄絕他,心裏歸向埃及,
to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
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.’
7:41
ወገብሩላሕመውእተአሚረወአዕረጉመሥዋዕተለጣዖትወተፈሥሑበግብረእደዊሆሙ።
那時,他們造了一個牛犢,又拿祭物獻給那像,歡喜自己手中的工作。
They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
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,
7:46
ዘረከበሞገሰበቅድመእግዚአብሔርወሰአለይርከብማኅደሮለአምላከያዕቆብ።
大衛在上帝面前蒙恩,祈求為雅各的上帝預備居所;
who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
7:47
ወዳዕሙሰሎሞንሐነጸሎቱቤተ።
卻是所羅門為上帝造成殿宇。
But Solomon built him a house.
7:48
ወአኮሰዘየኀድርልዑልውስተግብረእደሰብእእስመከመዝይቤነቢይ።
其實,至高者並不住人手所造的,就如先知所言:
However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
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.
7:53
ወነሢአክሙኦሪተበሥርዐተመላእክትኢዐቀብክሙ።
你們受了天使所傳的律法,竟不遵守。」
You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”
7:54
ወዘንተሰሚዖሙተምዕዑወአብደልቦሙወሐቀዩስነኒሆሙላዕሌሁ።
眾人聽見這話就極其惱怒,向司提反咬牙切齒。
Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.