12Genesis 12

1Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.Select Genesis 12:1

2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.Select Genesis 12:2

3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”Select Genesis 12:3

4So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.Select Genesis 12:4

5Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.Select Genesis 12:5

6Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.Select Genesis 12:6

7Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.Select Genesis 12:7

8He left from there 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 Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.Select Genesis 12:8

9Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.Select Genesis 12:9

10There 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.Select Genesis 12:10

11When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.Select Genesis 12:11

12It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.Select Genesis 12:12

13Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”Select Genesis 12:13

14When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.Select Genesis 12:14

15The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.Select Genesis 12:15

16He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.Select Genesis 12:16

17Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.Select Genesis 12:17

18Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?Select Genesis 12:18

19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”Select Genesis 12:19

20Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.Select Genesis 12:20