Genesis 12

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1. 1The LORD had told Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's household, and go to a land that I will show you."
2. 2"I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great, and you will be a blessing."
3. 3"I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse. Through you, every family on earth will be blessed."
4. 4So Abram left, just as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.
5. 5Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the souls they had acquired in Haran. They set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
6. 6Abram traveled through the land as far as the place of Sichem, at the plain of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanite was living in the land.
7. 7The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
8. 8From there he moved on to a mountain east of Bethel and set up his tent, with Bethel to the west and Hai to the east. He built an altar to the LORD there and called upon the name of the LORD.
9. 9Then Abram continued traveling, moving steadily toward the south.
10. 10Now a famine struck the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a while, because the famine was severe in the land.
11. 11As he was approaching Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Listen, I know that you are a beautiful woman."
12. 12"When the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'She is his wife,' and they will kill me but let you live."
13. 13"Please tell them you are my sister, so that things will go well for me on your account, and my soul will be spared because of you."
14. 14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians noticed that Sarai was extremely beautiful.
15. 15Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and she was brought into Pharaoh's household.
16. 16Pharaoh treated Abram well because of her, and Abram received sheep, oxen, male donkeys, menservants, maidservants, female donkeys, and camels.
17. 17But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with terrible plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
18. 18Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?"
19. 19"Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her as my own wife? Here is your wife — take her and leave!"
20. 20Pharaoh gave orders to his men regarding Abram, and they escorted him away along with his wife and everything he owned.