The Genesis
Chapter
12
1 Then Jehovah said to Abram: 'Leave this land, as well as your family and your father's home, and go to a land that I will to show you, 2 because I'm going to make a great nation of you. I will bless you, make your name famous, and you will become a blessing [to others]. 3 I will bless those who praise you and curse those who curse you… all tribes will be blest because of you.'
4 So Abram did just as Jehovah told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran, 5 taking along his woman Sara, his nephew Lot, all the many things that they owned, and all the souls that they had accumulated in Haran, as they traveled to the land of CanaAn. 6 Abram traveled down through the land as far as a place called Shechem, where there was a tall tree. And at the time, the CanaAnites were living in the land.
7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said: 'I will give this land to your seed.' So Abram built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
8 Then he moved on from there to a mountain that was east of BethEl, and he pitched his tent near BethEl, close to the sea, east of AgGai. There he built an altar to Jehovah and started calling on the Name of the Lord. 9 Then Abram left from there and camped in the desert.
10 Well, there came a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay, because the famine had devastated the land. 11 And as Abram was about to enter Egypt, he said to his woman Sara: 'You're a beautiful woman, 12 [and I'm afraid] that when the Egyptians see you they'll say, [Look at] his woman, and they'll kill me… but they will allow you to live. 13 So, tell people that you're my sister. That way, things will go well for me because of you, and my life will be safe because of you.'
14 And that's what happened; when Abram entered Egypt and the Egyptians saw how beautiful his woman was, 15 one of Pharaoh's princes praised her to Pharaoh (likely Pepi II) and brought her into Pharaoh's [Palace]. 16 And because of her, Pharaoh treated Abram very well. So he accumulated [many] sheep, calves, burros, male and female servants, mules, and camels.
17 However, God cursed Pharaoh and his house with some very serious and difficult problems because of Sara (Abram's woman). 18 So Pharaoh called Abram and asked, 'What have you done to me? You didn't tell me that she's your woman. 19 Why did you tell us that she's your sister? Look, I've already taken her as mine! Now, there's your woman standing before you… she's yours, so take her and leave quickly!'
20 Then Pharaoh gave his men instructions about Abram, telling them to accompany him and his woman on their way, along with all the things that they owned.
4 So Abram did just as Jehovah told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran, 5 taking along his woman Sara, his nephew Lot, all the many things that they owned, and all the souls that they had accumulated in Haran, as they traveled to the land of CanaAn. 6 Abram traveled down through the land as far as a place called Shechem, where there was a tall tree. And at the time, the CanaAnites were living in the land.
7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said: 'I will give this land to your seed.' So Abram built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
8 Then he moved on from there to a mountain that was east of BethEl, and he pitched his tent near BethEl, close to the sea, east of AgGai. There he built an altar to Jehovah and started calling on the Name of the Lord. 9 Then Abram left from there and camped in the desert.
10 Well, there came a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay, because the famine had devastated the land. 11 And as Abram was about to enter Egypt, he said to his woman Sara: 'You're a beautiful woman, 12 [and I'm afraid] that when the Egyptians see you they'll say, [Look at] his woman, and they'll kill me… but they will allow you to live. 13 So, tell people that you're my sister. That way, things will go well for me because of you, and my life will be safe because of you.'
14 And that's what happened; when Abram entered Egypt and the Egyptians saw how beautiful his woman was, 15 one of Pharaoh's princes praised her to Pharaoh (likely Pepi II) and brought her into Pharaoh's [Palace]. 16 And because of her, Pharaoh treated Abram very well. So he accumulated [many] sheep, calves, burros, male and female servants, mules, and camels.
17 However, God cursed Pharaoh and his house with some very serious and difficult problems because of Sara (Abram's woman). 18 So Pharaoh called Abram and asked, 'What have you done to me? You didn't tell me that she's your woman. 19 Why did you tell us that she's your sister? Look, I've already taken her as mine! Now, there's your woman standing before you… she's yours, so take her and leave quickly!'
20 Then Pharaoh gave his men instructions about Abram, telling them to accompany him and his woman on their way, along with all the things that they owned.
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