12:1 Now the LORD said to Abram,
“Go from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;
12:2 And I will make you into a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing;
12:3 And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who ①curses you I will ②curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
▷ ①Or reviles ②Or bind under a curse
12:4 So Abram went away as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
12:5 Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the ①people which they had acquired in Haran, and they ②set out for the land of Canaan; so they came to the land of Canaan.
▷ ①Lit souls ②Lit went forth to go to
12:6 Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the ①oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time.
▷ ①Or terebinth
12:7 And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your ①descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
▷ ①Lit seed
12:8 Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.
12:9 Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the ①Negev.
▷ ①I.e., South country
12:10 Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land.
12:11 It came about, when he ①was approaching Egypt, that he said to his wife Sarai, “See now, I know that you are a ②beautiful woman;
▷ ①Lit came near to enter ②Lit woman of beautiful appearance
12:12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.
12:13 Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you, and that ①I may live on account of you.”
▷ ①Lit my soul
12:14 Now it came about, when Abram entered Egypt, that the Egyptians ①saw that the woman was very beautiful.
▷ ①Lit saw the woman that she was
12:15 Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
12:16 Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and ①he gave him sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
▷ ①Lit there was to him
12:17 But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
12:18 Then 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?
12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for myself as a wife? Now then, ①here is your wife, take her and go!”
▷ ①Or behold
12:20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they ①escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.
▷ ①Lit sent