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GENESIS · Chapter 12
12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get you out of your country,
and from your kindred, and from your father's house, unto a land that I
will show you:
12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and
make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
12:3 And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses
you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went
with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out
of Haran.
12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and
all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had
got in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into
the land of Canaan they came.
12:6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto
the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto your seed will
I give this land: and there built he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared
unto him.
12:8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel,
and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and
there he built an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the
LORD.
12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into
Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt,
that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a fair
woman to look upon:
12:12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see
you, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but
they will save you alive.
12:13 Say, I pray you, you are my sister: that it may be well with
me for your sake; and my soul shall live because of you.
12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the
Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
12:15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before
Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
12:16 And he pleaded Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and
oxen, and he asses, and male servants, and maidservants, and she asses,
and camels.
12:17 And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues
because of Sarai Abram's wife.
12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that you have
done unto me? why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
12:19 Why said you, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to
me to wife: now therefore behold your wife, take her, and go your way.
12:20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him
away, and his wife, and all that he had.
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