| 12 | Genesis | ||
| 1 | Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. | ABRAHAM: God's call to Abram. Gn.12.1-9 | |
| 2 | And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. | ||
| 3 | I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves." | ||
| 4 | So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. | ||
| 5 | And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions which they had gathered, and the persons that they had gotten in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan, | ||
| 6 | Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. | ||
| 7 | Then Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built there an altar to Yahweh, who had appeared to him. | ||
| 8 | Thence he removed to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh. | ||
| 9 | And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb. | ||
| 10 | Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. | Abram in Egypt. Gn.12.10-20 | |
| 11 | When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful to behold; | ||
| 12 | and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live. | ||
| 13 | Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account." | ||
| 14 | When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. | ||
| 15 | And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. | ||
| 16 | And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, he-asses, menservants, maidservants, she-asses, and camels. | ||
| 17 | But Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. | ||
| 18 | So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? | ||
| 19 | Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone." | ||
| 20 | And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had. | ||
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