Abram im Call
Our Papa tell Abram make e leave everytin wey e know go one land wey e never name, and e promise blessing wey go reach all families for di earth. Abram go when e be seventy-five. Den hunger push am go Egypt, where e tell people say Sarai na im sister so dem no go kill am.
12 1Now our Papa talk give Abram sey, “Comot from your land, your family people, and your papa im house, go di land wey I go show you. 2I go make you become one great nation, and I go bless you; I go make your name big, so that you go be blessing. 3I go bless those wey bless you, and anybody wey curse you I go curse; and through you all di families for di earth go get blessing.” a a v3 Paul call dis verse di gospel wey dem preach give Abraham before-before — every family for di earth go get blessing through am, wey come happen for Jesus (Galatians 3:8).
4Abram go as our Papa tell am, and Lot follow am go. Abram be seventy-five years when e comot from Haran. 5Abram carry im wife Sarai, im broda pikin Lot, all di property wey dem don gather, and di people wey dem get for Haran, and dem comot go di land of Canaan, and dem reach di land of Canaan. 6Abram pass through di land reach di place wey dem call Shechem, reach di big oak tree of Moreh. Di Canaan people dey inside di land dat time.
7Then our Papa show imsef to Abram and sey, “I go give dis land to your pikin-pikin.” So Abram build altar for there give our Papa, wey show imsef to am. b b v7 Paul read “offspring” for here as one descendant — Jesus — wey di Abraham blessing take reach every nation (Galatians 3:16).
8From there e move go di hill area for di east side of Bethel and e pitch im tent, Bethel dey for west, Ai dey for east. E build altar for there give our Papa and e call on our Papa im name. 9Then Abram continue im journey, dey go toward di Negev.
Hunger and di Road go Egypt
10Since hunger enter di land, Abram go down go Egypt make e stay there, because di hunger too much for di land. 11As e near reach Egypt, e talk give im wife Sarai sey, “I know sey you be fine woman. 12When di Egypt people see you, dem go sey, ‘Na im wife be dis,’ and dem go kill me but dem go keep you alive. 13Abeg talk sey you be my sister, so that e go better for me because of you, and I go dey alive because of you.”
14When Abram enter Egypt, di Egypt people see sey di woman fine well well. 15Pharaoh im officials see am, dem praise am give Pharaoh, and dem carry di woman enter Pharaoh im palace. 16E treat Abram well because of am, and Abram come get sheep, cattle, male and female donkey, male and female servant, and camel. 17But our Papa strike Pharaoh and im household with heavy plague because of Sarai, Abram im wife. 18Pharaoh call Abram: “Wetin be dis wey you do me? Why you no tell me sey na your wife? 19Why you talk sey, ‘Na my sister,’ so that I take am as my wife? See your wife now—carry am and go.”
20Pharaoh give im men order about Abram, and dem send am comot with im wife and all wey e get.
