The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Genesis 12
1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave
your country, and your relatives, and your
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father’s house, and go to the land thatI will
show you.
2 I will make of you a great nation. I will
bless you and make your name great. You
will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and I
will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the
families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him.
Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his
brother’s son, all their possessions that
they had gathered, and the people whom
they had acquired in Haran, and they went
to go into the land of Canaan. They entered
into the land of Canaan.
6 Abram passed through the land to the
place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At
that time, Canaanites were in the land.
7Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I
will give this land to your offspring.Ӡ
He built an altar there to Yahweh, who
had appeared to him.
8He leftfrom there to go to the mountain
on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent,
having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the
east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and
called on Yahweh’s name.
9 Abram traveled, still going on toward
the South.
10 There was a famine inthe land. Abram
went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner
there, for the famine was severe in the
land.
11 When he had come near to enter
Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now,
I know that you are a beautiful woman to
look at.
12 It will happen that when the Egyptians
see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’
They will kill me, but they will save you
alive.
13 Please say that you are my sister, that
it may be well with me for your sake, and
that my soul may live because of you.”
14 When Abram had come into Egypt,
some Egyptians saw that the woman was
very beautiful.
15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and
praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman
was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
16 He dealt well with Abram for her
sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys,
male servants, female servants, female
donkeys, and camels.
17 Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his
house with great plagues because of Sarai,
Abram’s wife.
18 Pharaoh called Abram and said,
“What is this that you have done to me?
Why didn’t you tell me that she was your
wife?
19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’
so that I took her to be my wife? Now
therefore, see your wife, take her, and go
your way.”
20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning
him, and they escorted him away with his
wife and all that he had.
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