THE BOOK OF GENESIS

 

Genesis Chapter 12

1 ¶ Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Depart from your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you:

2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you will be a blessing:

3 And I will bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you: and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.

4 ¶ So Abram departed, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they set forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

6 ¶ And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.

7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, I will give this land to your descendents: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.

8 And he departed from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar to the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

9 And Abram journeyed, still going on toward the south.

10 ¶ Now there was a famine in the land: so Abram went down into Egypt to dwell there; for the famine was severe in the land.

11 And it came to pass, when he was about to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a woman beautiful to look upon:

12 Therefore, when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife: then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

13 Say, I pray you, you are my sister: that it may go well with me for your sake; and that my life shall be spared because of you.

14 ¶ And it came to pass, that, when Abram had entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.

15 The princes of Pharaoh also saw her, and praised her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

16 And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and male and female servants, and female donkeys, and camels.

17 And the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that you have done to me? why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

19 Why did you say, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me for a wife: now here is your wife, take her, and be gone.

20 And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him: and they sent him away, with his wife, and all that he had.