Genesis 12
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And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out from your land and from your kindred, and
from your father's house, to the land which I will show you. 2 And I will make
of you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great; and you
will be a blessing. 3 And I will bless those who bless you, and curse the one
despising you. And in you all families of the earth shall be blessed. 4 And
Abram went out, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And
Abram was a son of seventy five years when he went out from Haran. 5 And Abram
took his wife Sarai, and his brother's son, Lot, and all their substance that
they had gained, and the persons they had gotten in Haran. And they went out to
go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan. 6 And Abram
passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem,
to the Oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in
the land. 7 And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to
your seed. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, who appeared to him. 8 And
he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and stretched his tent
with Bethel toward the sea, and Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to
Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah. 9 And Abram pulled up stakes, going
on and pulling up stakes toward the Negeb. 10 And a
famine was in the land, so Abram went down into Egypt to stay there. For the
famine was heavy in the land. 11 And it happened when he had drawn near to come
to Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, Behold, please, I know that you are a
beautiful woman to look upon. 12 And it will be, when the Egyptians see you,
then they will say, This is his wife, and they will kill me, and they will save
you alive. 13 Please say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me
for your sake, and my soul shall live because of you. 14 And it happened, when
Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very
beautiful. 15 And Pharaoh's princes saw her, and they praised her before
Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he did good to
Abram because of her. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and male
slaves, and slave-girls, and she-asses, and camels. 17 And Jehovah touched
Pharaoh and his house with great plagues on the word of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18
And Pharaoh called for Abram and said, What is this you have done to me? Why
did you not tell me she is your wife? 19 Why did you say, She is my sister? And
so I took her for my wife. Now, then, see your wife. Take her and go. 20 And as
Pharaoh commanded his men as to him, even they sent away him and his wife and
all that he had.