Genesis 12:2-12

2 1And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3 2I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and 3in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."[a]
4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from 4Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
6 Abram 5passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to 6the oak[b] of 7Moreh. At that time 8the Canaanites were in the land.
7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, 9"To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of 10Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.
9 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.

Abram and Sarai in Egypt

10 Now 11there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they 12will kill me, but they will let you live.

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Cross References 12

  • 1. Genesis 17:6; Genesis 18:18; [Galatians 3:14]
  • 2. Genesis 27:29; Numbers 24:9
  • 3. Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:18; Genesis 26:4; Genesis 28:14; Jeremiah 4:2; Acts 3:25; Galatians 3:16; Cited Galatians 3:8
  • 4. Genesis 11:31
  • 5. [Hebrews 11:9]
  • 6. Genesis 13:18
  • 7. Deuteronomy 11:30; Judges 7:1
  • 8. Genesis 13:7
  • 9. Genesis 13:15; Genesis 17:8; Exodus 33:1; Psalms 105:9-12; [Numbers 32:11]; Galatians 3:16
  • 10. Genesis 28:19
  • 11. Genesis 26:1; Genesis 43:1
  • 12. See Genesis 20:1-18; Genesis 26:6-11

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
  • [b]. Or terebinth
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