¹Zvino Jehovha wakati kuna Abhuramu: Ibva panyika yekwako nekuhama dzako nekuimba yababa vako, uende kunyika yandichakuratidza.

¹Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.

²Zvino ndichakuita uve rudzi rukuru, nekukuropafadza, nekuita zita rako rive guru, uye uchava ropafadzo.

²I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

³Zvino ndicharopafadza vanokuropafadza, nekutuka unokutuka; uye mauri marudzi ose enyika acharopafadzwa.

³I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”

⁴Abhuramu ndokuenda Jehovha sezvaakataura kwaari, naRoti wakae­nda naye. Zvino Abhuramu wakange ane ma­kore makumi manomwe nemashanu pakubva kwake Harani.

⁴So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

⁵Abhuramu ndoku­tora Sarai, mukadzi wake, naRoti, mwanakomana wemunin'ina wake, nenhumbi dzavo dzose dzavakange vaunganidza, nemweya yavakange vawana paHarani, va­kabuda kuenda kunyika yeKanani; ­ndokusvika kunyika yeKanani.

⁵Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

⁶Abhuramu ndokugura nemunyika kusvika panzvimbo yeShekemu, pamuti wemuouki* weMore; uye vaKanani vaiva munyika iyo nguva iyoyo.

⁶Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

⁷Zvino Jehovha wakaonekera kuna Abhuramu, akati: Kumbeu yako ndichapa nyika iyi; ndokuvakira ipapo Jehovha aritari, iye wakange aonekera kwaari.

⁷Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your seed or, offspring .” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

⁸Zvino wakabva ipapo akaenda kugomo riri kumabvazuva aBheteri, ndokudzika tende rake; Bheteri riri kumavirazuva uye Ai kumabvazuva. Zvino wakavakirapo Jehovha aritari, akadana zita raJehovha.

⁸He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.

⁹Zvino Abhuramu wakafamba achienderera mberi akananga kuchamhembe.

⁹Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

¹⁰Zvino kwakava nenzara panyika iyo; Abhuramu ndokuburukira kuEgipita kunogarako semweni; nekuti nzara yairwadza panyika.

¹⁰There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

¹¹Zvino zvakaitika oswedera kupinda muEgipita kuti wakati kuna Sara, mukadzi wake: Tarira zvino, ndinoziva kuti uri mukadzi wa­kanaka kuonekwa.

¹¹It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

¹²Zvino zvichaitika vaEgipita pavachakuona, kuti vachati: Uyu mukadzi wa­ke, ndokundiuraya, asi iwe vachakuchengeta uri mupenyu.

¹²It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

¹³Uti hako uri hanzvadzi yangu, kuti zvindinakire nekuda kwako, mweya wangu ugorarama nekuda kwako.

¹³Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

¹⁴Zvino zvakaitika kuiti Abhuramu paakasvika Egipita, vaEgipita vakaona mukadzi kuti wakanaka kwazvo.

¹⁴It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

¹⁵Nemachinda aFarao akamuona, ndokumurumbi­dza pamberi paFarao; mukadzi ndokuiswa mumba maFarao.

¹⁵The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

¹⁶Zvino wakabata Abhu­ramu zvakanaka nekuda kwake; uye akava nemakwai nenzombe nemakono ema­dhongi nevarandarume nevarandakadzi ne­madhongi echikadzi nemakamera.

¹⁶He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

¹⁷Asi Jehovha wakatambudza Farao, neimba yake, nematambudziko makuru nekuda kwaSarai mukadzi waAbhu­ramu.

¹⁷Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

¹⁸Farao ndokudana Abhu­ramu akati, Chii ichi chawaita kwandiri? Nemhaka yei usina kundiudza kuti mukadzi wako.

¹⁸Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

¹⁹Wakareverei kuti ihanzvadzi yangu? kusvikira ndamutora kuva mukadzi wangu? Naizvozvo zvino tarira mukadzi wako, tora uende.

¹⁹Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

²⁰Zvino Farao akaraira varume maererano naye, vakamudzinga nemukadzi wake nezvose zvaakange anazvo.

²⁰Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.