Genesis 12
12
The Call of Abram
1Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, your family, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. # Ge 15:7; Heb 11:8
2I will make of you a great nation;
I will bless you
and make your name great,
so that you will be a blessing. # Ge 15:5; 18:18; Dt 26:5
3I will bless those who bless you
and curse him who curses you, # Ge 27:29 # 12:3 Or treats you lightly.
and in you all families of the earth
will be blessed.” # Ge 22:18; 26:4
4So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Harran. # Ge 11:31 5Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the people that they had acquired in Harran, # Ge 14:14 and they set out for the land of Canaan. They came to the land of Canaan. # Ge 11:31
6Then Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. # Ge 35:4; Dt 11:30 The Canaanites were in the land at that time. # Ge 13:7 7The Lord appeared to Abram # Ge 17:1 and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” # Ge 13:15 So he built an altar to the Lord, # Ge 13:4 who had appeared to him.
8From there he continued on to a mountain to the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. # Ge 4:26 9Then Abram continued his journey toward the Negev. # Ge 13:3; 24:62
Abram in Egypt
Ge 20:1–18; 26:1–11
10Now there was a famine in the land, # Ge 43:1 so Abram went down to Egypt to live there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11When he was getting near to Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know you are a beautiful woman. # Ge 26:7; 29:17; Est 2:7 12Therefore, when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will then kill me, but they will let you live. # Ge 20:11; 26:7 13Say you are my sister so that I may be treated well for your sake. Then my life will be spared because of you.” # Ge 20:2
14So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful. 15The princes of Pharaoh saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16He treated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheep and livestock, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels. # Ge 13:2; 20:14
17But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Abram’s wife, Sarai. # Ge 20:18; 1Ch 16:21 18So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, “What have you done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? # Ge 20:9–10 19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now here is your wife; take her and leave.” 20Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
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Genesis 12
12
Abram Obeys the Calling
1Then Adonai said to Abram, “Get going out from your land, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.
2My heart’s desire is to make you into a great nation, to bless you, to make your name great so that you may be a blessing.
3My desire is to bless those who bless you, but whoever curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.
4So Abram went, just as Adonai had spoken to him. Also Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)
5Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the people that they acquired in Haran, and they left to go to the land of Canaan, and they entered the land of Canaan.
6Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, as far as Moreh’s big tree. (The Canaanites were in the land then.)
7Then Adonai appeared to Abram, and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” So there he built an altar to Adonai, who had appeared to him.
8From there he moved to the mountain to the east of Beth-El and erected his tent (with Beth-El to the west and Ai to the east). There he built an altar to Adonai and called on the Name of Adonai.
9So Abram kept on journeying southward.
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live as an outsider there, because the famine was severe in the land.
11Just as he was about to enter Egypt he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, please, I know that you are an attractive woman.
12So when the Egyptians see you they’ll say, ‘This is his wife.’ And they’ll kill me; but you, they’ll let live.
13Please say that you are my sister, so that I’ll be treated well for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.”
14When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians did see that the woman was very beautiful.
15Indeed, Pharaoh’s officials saw her and they raved about her to Pharaoh. Then the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
16But Abram was treated well for her sake, and he got sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys and camels.
17But Adonai struck Pharaoh and his household with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
18So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What’s this that you did to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she is your wife?
19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take—and go!”
20Then Pharaoh instructed men concerning him, and they expelled him, with his wife, and everything that belonged to him.
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