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and be a blessing.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I bless those blessing you, and I curse him who is cursing you, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you.”<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Abram goes on, as YHWH has spoken to him, and Lot goes with him, and Abram [is] a son of seventy-five years in his going out from Haran. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Abram takes his wife Sarai, and his brother’s son Lot, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Haran; and they go out to go toward the land of Canaan; and they come to the land of Canaan. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Abram passes over into the land, to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And YHWH appears to Abram and says, “To your seed I give this land”; and there he builds an altar to YHWH, who has appeared to him. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he removes from there toward a mountain at the east of Beth-El, and stretches out the tent (Beth-El at the west, and Hai at the east), and he builds an altar to YHWH there, and preaches in the Name of YHWH. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Abram journeys, going on and journeying toward the south.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goes down toward Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [is] grievous in the land; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and it comes to pass as he has drawn near to enter Egypt, that he says to his wife Sarai, “Now behold, I have known that you [are] a woman of beautiful appearance; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and it has come to pass that the Egyptians see you, and they have said, This [is] his wife; and they have slain me, and you they keep alive: <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 it is well with me because of you, and my soul has lived for your sake.” <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And it comes to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceedingly beautiful; <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her to Pharaoh, and the woman is taken [to] Pharaoh’s house; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and to Abram he has done good because of her, and he has sheep and oxen, and male donkeys, and menservants, and handmaids, and female donkeys, and camels.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And YHWH plagues Pharaoh and his house—great plagues—for the matter of Sarai, Abram’s wife. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Pharaoh calls for Abram and says, “What [is] this you have done to me? Why have you not declared to me that she [is] your wife? <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Why have you said, She [is] my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? And now, behold, your wife, take and go.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Pharaoh charges men concerning him, and they send him away, and his wife, and all that he has.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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