Genesis 12

1verseNow the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

2verseI will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

3verseI will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

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

5verseAbram 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.

6verseAbram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

7verseThe LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

8verseHe 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 the LORD and called on the LORD’s name.

9verseAbram traveled, still going on toward the South.

10verseThere 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.

11verseWhen 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.

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

13versePlease 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.”

14verseWhen Abram had come into Egypt, some Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

15verseThe princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

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

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

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

19verseWhy 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.”

20versePharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.