Genesis 12
The Lord instructed Abram to leave his homeland and family, promising to make him a great nation, bless him, and bless those who bless him. Abram obeyed, taking his wife Sarai and nephew Lot with him to the land of Canaan, where the Lord appeared to him and promised the land to his offspring. However, a famine led Abram to Egypt, where he asked Sarai to pretend to be his sister to protect himself from the Egyptians. The Egyptians took Sarai into Pharaoh's house, but the Lord afflicted Pharaoh's household with plagues until Pharaoh discovered the truth and ordered Abram to leave with his wife and possessions.
1Then the Lord said to Abram: "Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, and come into the land that I will show you2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed3I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.4And so Abram departed just as the Lord had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran5And he took his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother, and all the substance which they had come to possess, and the lives which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed in order to go to the land of Canaan. And when they arrived in it6Abram passed through the land even to the place of Shechem, as far as the famous steep valley. Now at that time, the Canaanite was in the land7Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and he said to him, "To your offspring, I will give this land." And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him8And passing on from there to a mountain, which was opposite the east of Bethel, he pitched his tent there, having Bethel to the west, and Hai on the east. He also built an altar there to the Lord, and he called upon his name9And Abram traveled, going out and continuing further on, toward the south10But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land11And when he was close to entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai: "I know you to be a beautiful woman12And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘She is his wife.’ And they will put me to death, and retain you13Therefore, I beg you to say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me because of you, and so that my soul may live by your favor.14And so, when Abram had arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was exceedingly beautiful15And the princes reported it to Pharaoh, and they praised her to him. And the woman was inducted into the house of Pharaoh16In truth, they treated Abram well because of her. And he had sheep and oxen and male donkeys, and men servants, and women servants, and female donkeys, and camels17But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his house with great wounds because of Sarai, the wife of Abram18And Pharaoh called Abram, and he said to him: "What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife19For what reason did you claim her to be your sister, so that I would take her to me as a wife? Now therefore, behold your mate, receive her and go.20And Pharaoh instructed his men about Abram. And they led him away with his wife and all that he had
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