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[ Genesis 12:1-3 ]
1 Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee:
2 and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make they name great; and be thou a blessing;
3 and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
[[{Genesis 12:4|4 So Abram went, as YHWH had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Genesis 12:4WEB]]
[[{Genesis 12:5|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. Genesis 12:5WEB]]
[[{Genesis 12:6|6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land. Genesis 12:6WEB]]
[[{Genesis 12:7|7 YHWH appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to YHWH, who had appeared to him. Genesis 12:7WEB]]
[[{Genesis 12:8|8 He left from 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 YHWH and called on YHWH’s name. Genesis 12:8WEB]]
[[{Genesis 12:9|9 Abram traveled, still going on toward the South. Genesis 12:9WEB]]
[[{Genesis 12:10|10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land. Genesis 12:10WEB]]
[ Genesis 12:11-20 ]
11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
12 and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.
14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
16 And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
17 And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
19 why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
20 And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
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