Gen 12
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Now YHWH said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred, and from
your father`s house, to the land that I will show you:
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and I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make they name great;
and be you a blessing;
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and I will bless them that bless you, and him whom curses you will I curse: and in
you shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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So Abram went, as YHWH had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy
and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
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And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother`s son, and all their substance
that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went
forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
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And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And
the Canaanite was then in the land.
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And YHWH appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed will I give this land: and there
built he an altar to YHWH, who appeared to him.
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And he removed from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his
tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he built an altar
to YHWH, and called upon the name of YHWH.
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And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
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And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there;
for the famine was sore in the land.
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And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai
his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a fair woman to look upon:
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and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, that they will say, This
is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save you alive.
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Say, I pray you, you are my sister; that it may be well with me for your sake, and
that my soul may live because of you.
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And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the
woman that she was very fair.
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And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was
taken into Pharaoh`s house.
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And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses,
and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
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And YHWH plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram`s
wife.
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And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that you have done to me? why did
you not tell me that she was your wife?
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why said you, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold
your wife, take her, and go your way.
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And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his
wife, and all that he had.