Genesis:12

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drb @Genesis:12:1 @And the Lord said to Abram : Go forth out of thy country , and from thy kindred , and out of they father 's house , and come into the land which I shall shew thee . drb @Genesis:12:2 @And I will make of thee a great nation , and I will bless thee , and magnify thy name , and thou shalt be blessed . drb @Genesis:12:3 @I will bless them that bless thee , and curse them that curse thee , and IN THEE shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed : drb @Genesis:12:4 @So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him , and Lot went with him : Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran . drb @Genesis:12:5 @And he took Sarai his wife , and Lot his brother 's son , and all the substance which they had gathered , and the souls which they had gotten in Haran : and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan . And when they were come into it , drb @Genesis:12:6 @Abram passed through the country into the place of Sichem , as far as the noble vale : now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land . drb @Genesis:12:7 @And the Lord appeared to Abram , and said to him : To thy seed will I give this land . And he built there an altar to the Lord , who had appeared to him . drb @Genesis:12:8 @And passing on from thence to a mountain , that was on the east side of Bethel , he there pitched his tent , having Bethel on the west , and Hai on the east ; he built there also an altar to the Lord , and called upon his name . drb @Genesis:12:9 @And Abram went forward , going , and proceeding on to the south . drb @Genesis:12:10 @And there came a famine in the country ; and Abram went down into Egypt , to sojourn there : for the famine was very grievous in the land . drb @Genesis:12:11 @And when he was near to enter into Egypt , he said to Sarai his wife : I know that thou art a beautiful woman : drb @Genesis:12:12 @And that when the Egyptians shall see thee , they will say : She is his wife : and they will kill me , and keep thee . drb @Genesis:12:13 @Say , therefore , I pray thee , that thou art my sister : that I may be well used for thee , and that my soul may live for thy sake drb @Genesis:12:14 @And when Abram was come into Egypt , the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful . drb @Genesis:12:15 @And the princes told Pharao , and praised her before him : and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao . drb @Genesis:12:16 @And they used Abram well for her sake . And he had sheep and oxen , and he asses , and menservants and maidservants , and she asses , and camels . drb @Genesis:12:17 @But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai , Abram 's wife . drb @Genesis:12:18 @And Pharao called Abram , and said to him : What is this that thou hast done to me ? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife . drb @Genesis:12:19 @For what cause didst thou say , she was thy sister , that I might take her to my wife ? Now therefore , there is thy wife , take her , and go thy way . drb @Genesis:12:20 @And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram : and they led him away , and his wife , and all that he had .

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