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Genesis 12

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1 Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

2 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 I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

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 Haran.

5 Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother's son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,

6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, "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 on to the hill country 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 Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.

9 And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.

10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.

11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance;

12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, "This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

13 Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account."

14 When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

15 When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.

17 But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

18 So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

19 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 be gone."

20 And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.

The Message Bible MSG

1 God told Abram: "Leave your country, your family, and your father's home for a land that I will show you.

2 I'll make you a great nation and bless you. I'll make you famous; you'll be a blessing.

3 I'll bless those who bless you; those who curse you I'll curse. All the families of the Earth will be blessed through you."

4 So Abram left just as God said, and Lot left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

5 Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot with him, along with all the possessions and people they had gotten in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound.

6 Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites occupied the land.

7 God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children." Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.

8 He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent between Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there and prayed to God.

9 Abram kept moving, steadily making his way south, to the Negev.

10 Then a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live; it was a hard famine.

11 As he drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, "Look. We both know that you're a beautiful woman.

12 When the Egyptians see you they're going to say, 'Aha! That's his wife!' and kill me. But they'll let you live.

13 Do me a favor: tell them you're my sister. Because of you, they'll welcome me and let me live."

14 When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians took one look and saw that his wife was stunningly beautiful.

15 Pharaoh's princes raved over her to Pharaoh. She was taken to live with Pharaoh.

16 Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels.

17 But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.

18 Pharaoh called for Abram, "What's this that you've done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she's your wife?

19 Why did you say, 'She's my sister' so that I'd take her as my wife? Here's your wife back - take her and get out!"

20 Pharaoh ordered his men to get Abram out of the country. They sent him and his wife and everything he owned on their way.