Genesis 12

Now the Lord had said to Abram,

“Get yourselves out of your country,

and from your kindred,

and from your father's house,

to a land that I will show you.

² And I will make of you a great nation,

and I will bless you,

and make your name great;

and you will be a blessing.

³ And I will bless those that bless you,

and curse anyone that curses you;

and in you will all families of the earth be blessed.”

⁴ So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy and five (75) years old when he departed out of Haran. ⁵ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their property and goods that they had gathered, and the persons 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.

⁶ And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites was then in the land. ⁷ And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said,

“To your seed I will give this land.”

And there he built an altar to the Lord, who appeared to him.

⁸ And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.

⁹ And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

¹⁰ 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. ¹¹ And it came to pass, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, “Behold now, I know that you are a fair woman to look upon. ¹² Therefore, it will come to pass, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will save you alive. ¹³ Say, I pray you, that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake; and my soul will live because of you.”

¹⁴ And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. ¹⁵ The princes of Pharaoh also saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. ¹⁶ And he treated Abram well for her sake; and he had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and menservants, and maidservants, and female donkeys, and camels.

¹⁷ And the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. ¹⁸ And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? ¹⁹ Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? So I might have taken her to me for a wife. Now, therefore, behold your wife; take her, and go your way. ²⁰ And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

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Genesis 12

The King Version (KING)

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Notes:

1.   Property and goods vs. substance

2.   Persons vs. souls

3.   Moved vs. removed

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