12Genesis 12

1And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.Select Genesis 12:1

2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.Select Genesis 12:2

3I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.Select Genesis 12:3

4So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.Select Genesis 12:4

5And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,Select Genesis 12:5

6Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.Select Genesis 12:6

7And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.Select Genesis 12:7

8And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.Select Genesis 12:8

9And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.Select Genesis 12:9

10And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.Select Genesis 12:10

11And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:Select Genesis 12:11

12And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.Select Genesis 12:12

13Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.Select Genesis 12:13

14And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.Select Genesis 12:14

15And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.Select Genesis 12:15

16And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.Select Genesis 12:16

17But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.Select Genesis 12:17

18And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?Select Genesis 12:18

19For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way.Select Genesis 12:19

20And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away and his wife, and all that he had.Select Genesis 12:20