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Genesis 12 📜 📕 ↷
Call of Abram
1 AND our Lord said to Abram: Go forth of thy country, and out of thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into a land which I will shew thee.📜💬📚
2 And I will make thee into a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.📜💬📚
3 I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.📜💬📚
4 Abram therefore went out as our Lord had commanded him, and with him went Lot: seventy five years old was Abraham when he went forth out of Haran.📜💬📚
5 And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had possessed, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and went forth to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it.📜💬📚
6 Abram passed through the country unto the place Sichem, as far as the noble vale: and the Chanaanite was at that time in the country.📜💬📚
7 And our Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. Who builded there an altar to our Lord, that had appeared to him.📜💬📚
8 And marching on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, there he pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he builded there also an altar to our Lord, and called upon his name.📜💬📚
9 And Abram went forward going, and proceeding on to the south.📜💬📚
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10 And there came a famine in the country: and Abram descended into AEgypt, to be as a pilgrim there: for the famine was very sore in the land.📜💬📚
11 And when he was near to enter into AEgypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a fair woman,📜💬📚
12 and that when the AEgyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife; and they will kill me, and reserve thee.📜💬📚
13 Say therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.📜💬📚
14 When Abram therefore was entered into AEgypt, the AEgyptians, saw the woman that she was passing beautiful.📜💬📚
15 And the Princes told Pharao, and praised her to him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.📜💬📚
16 And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and Camels.📜💬📚
17 And our Lord scourged Pharao with very sore plagues, and his house, for Sarai Abram's wife.📜💬📚
18 And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?📜💬📚
19 For what cause didst thou say she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy ways.📜💬📚
20 And Pharao gave certain men commandment in the behalf of Abram: and they conducted him, and his wife, and all that he had.📜💬📚
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