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Genesis 12

Abram Journeys to Egypt

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Now  athe LORD said to Abram, " 1Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you;

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And  aI will make you a great nation, And  bI will bless you, And make your name great; And so  1 cyou shall be a blessing;

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And  aI will bless those who bless you, And the one who  1curses you I will  2curse.  bAnd in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

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So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and  aLot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

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Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their  apossessions which they had accumulated, and  bthe  1persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they  2set out for the land of Canaan;  cthus they came to the land of Canaan.

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Abram passed through the land as far as the site of  aShechem, to the  1oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land.

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The LORD  aappeared to Abram and said, " bTo your  1descendants I will give this land." So he built  can altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

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Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with  aBethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and  bcalled upon the name of the LORD.

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Abram journeyed on, continuing toward  athe  1Negev.

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Now there was  aa famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was  bsevere in the land.

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It came about when he  1came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a  2 abeautiful woman;

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 aand when the Egyptians see you, they will say, `This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

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"Please say that you are  amy sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that  1 bI may live on account of you."

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It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians  1saw that the woman was very beautiful.

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Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and  athe woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

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Therefore  ahe treated Abram well for her sake; and  1 bgave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

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But the LORD  astruck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, " aWhat is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

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"Why did you say, `She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then,  1here is your wife, take her and go."

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Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they  1escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.



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