Biblia Platense (Straubinger) · Catholic Public Domain Version
Génesis 20
1De allí se trasladó Abrahán a la región del Négueb, y habitó entre Cades y el Sur, morando temporalmente en Gerar. Abraham advanced from there into the southern land, and he lived between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.2Y dijo Abrahán de Sara, su mujer: “Es mi hermana”; por lo cual Abimelec, rey de Gerar, envió a tomar a Sara. And he said about his wife Sarah: “She is my sister.” Therefore, Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.3Pero vino Dios a Abimelec en el sueño durante la noche, y le dijo: “He aquí que morirás a causa de la mujer que has tomado, porque es mujer casada.” Then God came to Abimelech through a dream in the night, and he said to him: “Lo, you shall die because of the woman that you have taken. For she has a husband.”4Abimelec aún no se había acercado a ella, por lo cual dijo: “Señor, ¿matarás Tú también a gente justa? In truth, Abimelech had not touched her, and so he said: “Lord, would you put to death a people, ignorant and just?5¿No me dijo él mismo: ‘Es mi hermana’, y ella también dijo: ‘Es mi hermano’? Con sencillez de mi corazón, y con manos inocentes he hecho esto.” Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and did she not say, ‘He is my brother?’ In the sincerity of my heart and the purity of my hands, I have done this.”6Y le respondió Dios en sueños: “Bien sé que con sencillez de corazón has hecho esto; y Yo soy también quien te he preservado de pecar contra Mí. Por eso no te he permitido que la tocaras. And God said to him: “And I know that you have acted with a sincere heart. And therefore I kept you from sinning against me, and I did not release you to touch her.7Devuélve, pues, la mujer de este hombre, porque es un profeta y rogará por ti, para que vivas; mas si no la devuelves, sabe que morirás indefectiblemente, tú con todos los tuyos. Now therefore, return his wife to the man, for he is a prophet. And he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you are not willing to return her, know this: you shall die a death, you and all that is yours.”8Se levantó Abimelec muy de mañana, llamó a todos sus siervos y contó a sus oídos todas estas palabras. Y quedaron muy amedrentados. And immediately Abimelech, rising up in the night, called all his servants. And he spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men were very afraid.9Después llamó Abimelec a Abrahán, y le dijo “¿Qué es lo que has hecho con nosotros? ¿Y en qué te he ofendido, para que hayas traído sobre mí y mi reino un pecado tan grande? Has hecho tú conmigo cosas que no deben hacerse.” Then Abimelech called also for Abraham, and he said to him: “What have you done to us? How have we sinned against you, so that you would bring so great a sin upon me and upon my kingdom? You have done to us what you ought not to have done.”10Y Abimelec siguió diciendo a Abrahán: “¿Qué has visto para que hicieras esto?” And remonstrating him again, he said, “What did you see, so that you would do this?”11Respondió Abrahán: “Pensé: Seguramente no hay temor de Dios en este lugar y me van a matar a causa de mi mujer.” Abraham responded: “I thought to myself, saying: Perhaps there is no fear of God in this place. And they will put me to death because of my wife.12Y en verdad, ella es también mi hermana, hija de mi padre, aunque no hija de mi madre; y vino a ser mi mujer. Yet, in another way, she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her as a wife.13Mas cuando Dios me hizo errar fuera de la casa de mi padre, le dije a ella: “Este es el favor que me has de hacer. En cualquier lugar a que lleguemos, dirás de mí: ‘Es mi hermano’.” Then, after God led me out of my father’s house, I said to her: ‘You will show this mercy to me. In every place, to which we will travel, you will say that I am your brother.’ ”14Entonces Abimelec tomó ovejas y ganado y siervos y siervas, y se los dio a Abrahán. Le devolvió también a Sara, su mujer, diciéndole: Therefore, Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men servants and women servants, and he gave them to Abraham. And he returned his wife Sarah to him.15“He aquí que mi tierra está a tu disposición; habita en donde mejor te parezca.” And he said, “The land is in your sight. Dwell wherever it will please you.”16Y a Sara le dijo: “Mira, he dado mil siclos de plata a tu hermano. Esto te servirá para velar tus ojos ante todos los que están contigo. Así quedas justificada.” Then to Sarah he said: “Behold, I have given your brother one thousand silver coins. This will be for you as a veil for your eyes, to all who are with you and wherever you will travel. And so, remember that you were taken.”17Y rogó Abrahán a Dios, y sanó Dios a Abimelec, y a su mujer, y a sus siervas, y ellas tuvieron hijos. Then when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they gave birth.18Porque Yahvé había cerrado completamente toda matriz en la casa de Abimelec, a causa de Sara, mujer de Abrahán. For the Lord had closed every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.