Genesis:12-13
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Now the LORD had said unto Abram ,
Get thee out of thy country ,
and from thy kindred ,
and from thy father '
s house ,
unto a land that I will shew thee :
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And I will make of thee a great nation ,
and I will bless thee ,
and make thy name great ;
and thou shalt be a blessing :
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And I will bless them that bless thee ,
and curse him that curseth thee :
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed .
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So Abram departed ,
as the LORD had spoken unto him ;
and Lot went with him :
and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran .
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And Abram took Sarai his wife ,
and Lot his brother '
s son ,
and all their substance that they had gathered ,
and the souls that they had gotten in Haran ;
and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan ;
and into the land of Canaan they came .
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And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem ,
unto the plain of Moreh .
And the Canaanite was then in the land .
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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 ,
who appeared unto him .
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And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel ,
and pitched his tent ,
having Bethel on the west ,
and Hai on the east :
and there he builded an altar unto the LORD ,
and called upon the name of the LORD .
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And Abram journeyed ,
going on still toward the south .
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And there was a famine in the land :
and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there ;
for the famine was grievous in the land .
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And it came to pass ,
when he was come near to enter into Egypt ,
that he said unto Sarai his wife ,
Behold now ,
I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon :
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Therefore it shall come to pass ,
when the Egyptians shall see thee ,
that they shall say ,
This is his wife :
and they will kill me ,
but they will save thee alive .
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Say ,
I pray thee ,
thou art my sister :
that it may be well with me for thy sake ;
and my soul shall live because of thee .
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And it came to pass ,
that ,
when Abram was come into Egypt ,
the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair .
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The princes also of Pharaoh saw her ,
and commended her before Pharaoh :
and the woman was taken into Pharaoh '
s house .
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And he entreated Abram well for her sake :
and he had sheep ,
and oxen ,
and he asses ,
and menservants ,
and maidservants ,
and she asses ,
and camels .
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And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram '
s wife .
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And Pharaoh called Abram ,
and said ,
What is this that thou hast done unto me ?
why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife ?
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Why saidst thou ,
She is my sister ?
so I might have taken her to me to wife :
now therefore behold thy wife ,
take her ,
and go thy way .
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And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him :
and they sent him away ,
and his wife ,
and all that he had .
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And Abram went up out of Egypt ,
he ,
and his wife ,
and all that he had ,
and Lot with him ,
into the south .
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And Abram was very rich in cattle ,
in silver ,
and in gold .
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And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel ,
unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning ,
between Bethel and Hai ;
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Unto the place of the altar ,
which he had made there at the first :
and there Abram called on the name of the LORD .
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And Lot also ,
which went with Abram ,
had flocks ,
and herds ,
and tents .
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And the land was not able to bear them ,
that they might dwell together :
for their substance was great ,
so that they could not dwell together .
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And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram '
s cattle and the herdmen of Lot '
s cattle :
and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land .
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And Abram said unto Lot ,
Let there be no strife ,
I pray thee ,
between me and thee ,
and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ;
for we be brethren .
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Is not the whole land before thee ?
separate thyself ,
I pray thee ,
from me :
if thou wilt take the left hand ,
then I will go to the right ;
or if thou depart to the right hand ,
then I will go to the left .
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And Lot lifted up his eyes ,
and beheld all the plain of Jordan ,
that it was well watered every where ,
before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ,
even as the garden of the LORD ,
like the land of Egypt ,
as thou comest unto Zoar .
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Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan ;
and Lot journeyed east :
and they separated themselves the one from the other .
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Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan ,
and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain ,
and pitched his tent toward Sodom .
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But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly .
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And the LORD said unto Abram ,
after that Lot was separated from him ,
Lift up now thine eyes ,
and look from the place where thou art northward ,
and southward ,
and eastward ,
and westward :
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For all the land which thou seest ,
to thee will I give it ,
and to thy seed for ever .
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And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth :
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth ,
then shall thy seed also be numbered .
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Arise ,
walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ;
for I will give it unto thee .
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Then Abram removed his tent ,
and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre ,
which is in Hebron ,
and built there an altar unto the LORD .
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And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar ,
Arioch king of Ellasar ,
Chedorlaomer king of Elam ,
and Tidal king of nations ;