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The Call of Abram

The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

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Promises to Abram

Now the Lord had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.

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“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.a

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I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.

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I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.”b

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I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

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So 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.

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So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

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He 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.

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Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the [a]people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

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Abram 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.

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Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as [b]the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.

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The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspringc I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

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Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your [c]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

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From 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.

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And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he 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.

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Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

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So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the [d]South.

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Abram in Egypt

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

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Abram in Egypt

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.

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And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance.

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When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.

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Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

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Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”

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Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that [e]I may live because of you.”

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When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.

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So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.

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And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.

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The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house.

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He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

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He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

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But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

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But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

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So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

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And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What 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 to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

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Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now therefore, here is your wife; take her and go your way.”

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Then 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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So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.

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Genesis 12

Genesis 12