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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 12 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Genesis 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/11.htm" title="Genesis 11">◄</a> Genesis 12 <a href="../genesis/13.htm" title="Genesis 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/12-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Call of Abram<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../genesis/26.htm">Genesis 26:1–5</a>; <a href ="../acts/7.htm">Acts 7:1–8</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the Lord said to Abram: “Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, and come into the land that I will show you.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And so Abram departed just as the Lord had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he took his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother, and all the substance which they had come to possess, and the lives which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed in order to go to the land of Canaan. And when they arrived in it, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Abram passed through the land even to the place of Shechem, as far as the famous steep valley. Now at that time, the Canaanite was in the land. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and he said to him, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And passing on from there to a mountain, which was opposite the east of Bethel, he pitched his tent there, having Bethel to the west, and Hai on the east. He also built an altar there to the Lord, and he called upon his name. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Abram traveled, going out and continuing further on, toward the south.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Abram and Sarai in Egypt<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And when he was close to entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai: “I know you to be 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, ‘She is his wife.’ And they will put me to death, and retain you. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore, I beg you to say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me because of you, and so that my soul may live by your favor.” <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And so, when Abram had arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was exceedingly beautiful. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the princes reported it to Pharaoh, and they praised her to him. And the woman was inducted into the house of Pharaoh. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>In truth, they treated Abram well because of her. And he had sheep and oxen and male donkeys, and men servants, and women servants, and female donkeys, and camels.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his house with great wounds because of Sarai, the wife of Abram. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Pharaoh called Abram, and he said to him: “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife? <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For what reason did you claim her to be your sister, so that I would take her to me as a wife? Now therefore, behold your mate, receive her and go.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Pharaoh instructed his men about Abram. And they led him away with his wife and all that he had.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>