Genesis 12:1-20 NIV
The Call of Abram
“Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I Will Show you.
2“I Will Make you into a great nation,
and I Will Bless you;
I Will Make your name great,
and you
will be a blessing.
3I Will Bless those who bless you,
and
whoever curses you I will curse;
and all
peoples on earth
will be
blessed through you.”
4So
Abram went, as The Lord Had Told him; and Lot went with him.
Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
5He took his
wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the
people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan,
and they arrived there.
6Abram
traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at
Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7The Lord Appeared to Abram and Said,
“To your offspring I Will Give this land.”
So he built an altar
there to The Lord, Who Had Appeared to him.
8From
there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with
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.
Abram in Egypt
10Now
there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for
a while because the famine was severe.
11As
he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a
beautiful woman you are. 12When
the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill
me but will let you live. 13Say
you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life
will be spared because of you.”
14When
Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. 15And when
Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken
into his palace.
16He
treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and
female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
17But The Lord Inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh
and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai.18So Pharaoh
summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me
she was your wife? 19Why
did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then,
here is your wife. Take her and go!”
20Then
Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with
his wife and everything he had.
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