Genesis 12 — WMB
12Verse 1Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.Verse 2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.Verse 3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”Verse 4So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.Verse 5Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.Verse 6Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.Verse 7The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”+He built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.Verse 8He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the LORD’s name.Verse 9Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.Verse 10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.Verse 11When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.Verse 12It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.Verse 13Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”Verse 14When Abram had come into Egypt, some Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.Verse 15The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.Verse 16He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.Verse 17The LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.Verse 18Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?Verse 19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”Verse 20Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.