Genesis 12
12 1Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show
thee:
2and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and
make they name great; and be thou a blessing;
3and I will bless them that
bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the
families of the earth be blessed.
4So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken
unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old
when he departed out of Haran.
5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot
his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the
souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land
of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
6And Abram passed
through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the
Canaanite was then in the land.
7And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and
said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto
Jehovah, who appeared unto him.
8And he removed from thence unto the
mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the
west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and
called upon the name of Jehovah.
9And Abram journeyed, going on still
toward the South.
10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to
sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.
11And it came to
pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his
wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
12and
it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say,
This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
13Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for
thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.
14And it came to
pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman
that she was very fair.
15And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised
her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
16And he
dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses,
and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
17And
Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai,
Abram's wife.
18And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that
thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
19why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife?
now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
20And Pharaoh
gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his
wife, and all that he had.