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12:1  Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
12:2  I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
12:3  I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
12:4  So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
12:5  Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,
12:6  Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
12:7  Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
12:8  From there he moved on to the hill country 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 invoked the name of the Lord.
12:9  And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.
12:10  Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.
12:11  When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance;
12:12  and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
12:13  Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account.”
12:14  When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
12:15  When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
12:16  And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.
12:17  But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
12:18  So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
12:19  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone.”
12:20  And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.