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Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite <i>was</i> then in the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> appeared to Abram and said, To your descendants I will give this land. So he built an altar there to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> who had appeared to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the L<font size="1">ORD</font> and called upon the name of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>It came about when he came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may live on account of you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Pharaohs officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaohs house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>But the L<font size="1">ORD</font> struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abrams wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her and go. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/12-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Pharaoh commanded <i>his</i> men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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