Genesis Chapter 12

Genesis Chapter 12
1 For the Lord had 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. 2 And I
will make of thee a great nation, and
will bless thee, and make thy name great,
and thou shalt be a blessing.
3 I will also bless them that bless thee,
and curse them that curse thee, and in
thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed.
4 So Abram departed, even as the Lord
spake unto him, and Lot went with him.
(And Abram was seventy and five year
old, when he departed out of Haran)
5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife, and
Lot his brother’s son, and all their
substance that they possessed, and the
souls that they had gotten in Haran, and
they departed, to go to the land of
Canaan: and to the land of Canaan they
came.
6 So Abram passed through the land unto
the place of Sichem, and unto the plain
of Moreh (and the Canaanite was then in
the land) 7 And the Lord appeared unto
Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I
give this land. And there builded he an
altar unto the Lord, which appeared unto
him. 8 Afterward removing thence unto a
mountain eastward from Beth-el, he
pitched his tent having Beth-el on the
west side, and Hai on the east: and there
he built an altar unto the Lord, and
called on the Name of the Lord. 9 Again
Abram went forth going and journeying
toward the south. 10 Then there came a
famine in the land: therefore Abram
went down into Egypt to sojourn there:
for there was a great famine in the land.
11 And when he drew near to enter into
Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Behold
now, I know that thou art a fair woman
to look upon:
12 Therefore it will come to pass, that
when the Egyptians see thee, they will
say, She is his wife: so will they kill me,
but they will keep thee alive. 13 Say, I
pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I
may fare well for thy sake, and that my
life may be preserved by thee.
14 Now, when Abram was come into
Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman:
for she was very fair.
15 And the Princes of Pharaoh saw her,
and commended her unto Pharaoh: so the
woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house:
16 Who entreated Abram well for her
sake, and he had sheep, and beeves, and
he asses, and menservants and
maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
17 But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his
house with great plagues, because of
Sarai Abram’s wife.
18 Then Pharaoh called Abram, and
said, Why hast thou done this unto me?
Wherefore didst thou not tell me, that she
was thy wife?
19 Why saidest thou, She is my sister,
that I should take her to be my wife?
Now therefore behold thy wife, take her
and go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh gave
men commandment concerning him: and
they
conveyed him forth, and his wife, and all
that he had.