Abhurahama muGerari
Abhurahama anotizve Sara ihanzvadzi yake, uye Abhimereki anomutora. Baba vedu vanonyevera mambo muchiroto asati amubata, uye Abhimereki anozviti haana mhosva. Abhurahama anobvuma kuti akangofungidzira kuti pano hapana aitya Baba vedu.
20 1Abhurahama akabva ipapo akaenda kuNegevhi, akagara pakati peKadheshi neShuri, uye akagara ari mutorwa muGerari. 2Abhurahama akataura nezvaSara, mukadzi wake, achiti, “Ihanzvadzi yangu.” Saka Abhimereki mambo weGerari akatuma vanhu kuti vamutore, akatora Sara.
3Asi Baba vedu vakauya kuna Abhimereki muchiroto usiku ihwohwo, vachiti, “Wava kungofanana nomunhu afa nokuda kwomukadzi wawatora, nokuti mukadzi akawanikwa.”
4Abhimereki akanga asati aswedera kwaari. Akati, “Ishe Mwari, mungaparadza kunyange rudzi rusina mhosva here? 5Haasi iye pachake akandiudza here kuti, ‘Ihanzvadzi yangu’? Uye naiye pachake akati, ‘Ihanzvadzi yangu.’ Ndakaita izvi nomwoyo wakatendeseka nemaoko asina mhosva.”
6Ipapo Baba vedu vakati kwaari muchiroto, “Hongu, ndinoziva kuti wakaita izvi nomwoyo wakarurama, uye ndakakudzivisa kuti utadzire ini—ndokusaka ndisina kukutendera kuti umubate. 7Zvino dzosera mukadzi womurume uyu, nokuti muprofita achakunyengeterera, ugorarama. Kana usingamudzosi, uzive kuti uchafa zvirokwazvo, iwe navose vari vako.”
8Abhimereki akamuka mangwanani-ngwanani, akadana varanda vake vose, akavaudza zvose zvakanga zvaitika; varume ava vakatya kwazvo. 9Abhimereki akadana Abhurahama akamubvunza achiti, “Chii chawaita kwatiri? Ndakakutadzira sei, zvokuti wauyisa chivi chikuru pamusoro pangu noumambo hwangu? Waita kwandiri zvinhu zvisingafaniri kumboitwa.” 10Abhimereki akatiwo kuna Abhurahama, “Wakanga uchifungei, zvokuti waita chinhu chakadai?”
11Abhurahama akati, “Ndakafunga kuti: zvirokwazvo hapana kutya Baba vedu panzvimbo ino, uye vachandiuraya nokuda kwomukadzi wangu.” 12Uyezve, zvechokwadi ihanzvadzi yangu, mwanasikana wababa vangu asi kwete waamai vangu, uye akava mukadzi wangu.
13Baba vedu pavakaita kuti ndidzungaire ndichibva paimba yababa vangu, ndakamuudza kuti: Ndiitire mutsa uyu—kwose kwatinoenda, nditaurire uchiti, “Ihanzvadzi yangu.”
14Abhimereki akatora makwai, mombe, nevaranda navarandakadzi, akazvipa Abhurahama, akadzosera Sara mukadzi wake kwaari. 15Abhimereki akati, “Nyika yangu yakazaruka kwauri; gara pose paunoda.” 16Kuna Sara akati, “Tarira, ndiri kupa hanzvadzi yako masirivha chiuru. Izvi ndezvokufukidza kukanganisirwa kwawakaitwa pamberi pavose vaunavo; pamberi pavanhu vose wapembedzwa zvizere.”
17Abhurahama akanyengetera kuna Baba vedu, ivo vakaporesa Abhimereki, mukadzi wake, navarandakadzi vake, kuti vakwanise kubereka vana zvakare, 18nokuti Baba vedu vakanga vavhara zvachose chibereko choga choga mumba maAbhimereki nokuda kwaSara, mukadzi waAbhurahama.