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Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. <p class="reg"> When they came to the land of Canaan, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span>” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev. <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Abram and Sarai in Egypt<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.” <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Cited in <a href="../acts/7.htm#3">Acts 7:3</a><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> See <a href="../galatians/3.htm#8">Galatians 3:8</a><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>Terebinth</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>Great Tree</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Cited in <a href="../galatians/3.htm#16">Galatians 3:16</a><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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