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Genesis, Chapter 12

¹ Now the LORD said to Abram, “^a Lit Go for yourselfGo forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you; ² And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so^b Lit be a blessingyou shall be a blessing; ³ And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who^c Or revilescurses you I will^d Or bind under a cursecurse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”	1 Gen 15:7 Act 7:3 Heb 11:8 2 Gen 17:4-6 Gen 18:18 Gen 46:3 Deu 26:5 Gen 22:17 Zec 8:13 3 Gen 24:35 Gen 27:29 Num 24:9 Gen 22:18 Gen 26:4 Gen 28:14 Act 3:25 Gal 3:8
⁴ So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵ Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the^e Lit soulspersons which they had acquired in Haran, and they^f Lit went forth to go toset out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the^g Or terebinthoak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land. ⁷ The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your^h Lit seeddescendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him. ⁸ Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD. ⁹ Abram journeyed on, continuing toward theⁱ I.e. South countryNegev.	4 Gen 11:27 Gen 11:31 5 Gen 13:6 Gen 14:14 Lev 22:11 Gen 11:31 Heb 11:8 6 Gen 35:4 Deu 11:30 7 Gen 17:1 Gen 18:1 Gen 13:15 Gen 15:18 Deu 34:4 Psa 105:9-12 Act 7:5 Gal 3:16 Gen 13:4 Gen 13:18 Gen 22:9 8 Jos 8:9 Jos 8:12 Gen 4:26 Gen 21:33 9 Gen 13:1 Gen 13:3 Gen 20:1 Gen 24:62
¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. ¹¹ It came about when he^j Lit drew near to entercame near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a^k Lit woman of beautiful appearancebeautiful woman; ¹² and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. ¹³ Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that^l Lit my soulI may live on account of you.” ¹⁴ It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians^m Lit saw the woman that she wassaw that the woman was very beautiful. ¹⁵ Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. ¹⁶ Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; andⁿ Lit he hadgave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.	10 Gen 26:1 Gen 43:1 11 Gen 26:7 Gen 29:17 12 Gen 20:11 13 Gen 20:2 Gen 20:5 Gen 20:12 Gen 26:7 Jer 38:17 Jer 38:20 15 Gen 20:2 16 Gen 20:14 Gen 13:2
¹⁷ But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. ¹⁸ Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? ¹⁹ Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then,^o Or beholdhere is your wife, take her and go.” ²⁰ Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they^p Lit sentescorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.	17 Gen 20:18 Ch1 16:21 Psa 105:14 18 Gen 20:9 Gen 20:10 Gen 26:10


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