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Genesis 12

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

3 To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

4 So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

5 And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

6 And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

7 And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.

8 And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

9 And he went on, journeying still to the South.

10 And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

11 Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

12 And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

13 Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.

14 And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

15 And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.

16 And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

17 And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

18 Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

19 Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.

20 And Pharaoh gave orders to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and all he had.

Good News Translation GNT

1 The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you.

2 I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless those who bless you, But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations."

4 When Abram was seventy-five years old, he started out from Haran, as the Lord had told him to do; and Lot went with him.

5 Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

6 Abram traveled through the land until he came to the sacred tree of Moreh, the holy place at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were still living in the land.)

7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants." Then Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8 After that, he moved on south to the hill country east of the city of Bethel and set up his camp between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There also he built an altar and worshiped the Lord.

9 Then he moved on from place to place, going toward the southern part of Canaan.

10 But there was a famine in Canaan, and it was so bad that Abram went farther south to Egypt, to live there for a while.

11 When he was about to cross the border into Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "You are a beautiful woman.

12 When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.

13 Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well."

14 When he crossed the border into Egypt, the Egyptians did see that his wife was beautiful.

15 Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.

16 Because of her the king treated Abram well and gave him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.

17 But because the king had taken Sarai, the Lord sent terrible diseases on him and on the people of his palace.

18 Then the king sent for Abram and asked him, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

19 Why did you say that she was your sister, and let me take her as my wife? Here is your wife; take her and get out!"

20 The king gave orders to his men, so they took Abram and put him out of the country, together with his wife and everything he owned.