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Genesis Chapter 12

¹Now ForeverOne said to Abram, "Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father's house, and go to the land that I will show you.

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

³I will bless those who bless you, and one who curses you I will curse. All of the families of the earth will be blessed through you." ⁴So Abram went, as ForeverOne had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

⁵Abram 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. Into the land of Canaan they came.

⁶Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

⁷ForeverOne appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." He built an altar there to ForeverOne, who appeared to him.

⁸And he went from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to ForeverOne and called on the name of ForeverOne.

⁹Abram traveled, still going toward the South.

¹⁰There 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.

¹¹Just as he was about to enter Egypt he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

¹²When the Egyptians will see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

¹³Please 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." ¹⁴When Abram had arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

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

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

¹⁷ForeverOne afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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

¹⁹Why 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." ²⁰Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.