Genesis:12

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* Now the LORD said to Abram , "Go from your country and your kindred and your father 's house to the land that I will show you . * And I will make of you a great nation , and I will bless you , and make your name great , so that you will be a blessing . * I will bless those who bless you , and him who curses you I will curse ; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves ." * So Abram went , as the LORD had told him ; and Lot went with him . Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran . * And Abram took Sar 'ai his wife , and Lot his brother 's son , and all their possessions which they had gathered , and the persons that they had gotten in Haran ; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan . When they had come to the land of Canaan , * Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem , to the oak of Moreh . At that time the Canaanites were in the land . * Then the LORD appeared to Abram , and said , "To your descendants I will give this land ." So he built there an altar to the LORD , who had appeared to him . * Thence he removed 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 on the name of the LORD . * And Abram journeyed on , still going toward the Negeb . * Now there was a famine in the land . So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there , for the famine was severe in the land . * When he was about to enter Egypt , he said to Sar 'ai his wife , "I know that you are a woman beautiful to behold ; * and when the Egyptians see you , they will say , `This is his wife '; then they will kill me , but they will let you live . * Say you are my sister , that it may go well with me because of you , and that my life may be spared on your account ." * When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful . * And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her , they praised her to Pharaoh . And the woman was taken into Pharaoh 's house . * And for her sake he dealt well with Abram ; and he had sheep , oxen , he-asses , menservants , maidservants , she-asses , and camels . * But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sar 'ai , Abram 's wife . * So Pharaoh called Abram , and said , "What is this you have done to me ? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife ? * Why did you say , `She is my sister ,' so that I took her for my wife ? Now then , here is your wife , take her , and be gone ." * And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him ; and they set him on the way , with his wife and all that he had .

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