Leave your country
your family and your father's house.
Go to a place I will show you.
12:2 I will make you
into a great people
and I will bless you.
I will make your name great
and you will be fortunate.
12:3 I will bless those who bless you
and will curse whoever curses you.
and the people of earth
will be blessed through you.
12:4 So Abram left like Yahweh said
and
Abram was seventy-five years old
when he left
12:5 He took his wife Sarai
and his nephew
And all the things they had
and the people they knew from
They set out for the
and to
12:6 Abram journeyed through the land
as far as the great tree of Moreh at Shechem.
At the time the Canaanites lived there.
12:7 Yahweh appeared to Abram
and spoke to him saying:
To you and your followers
will this land be entrusted.
So he built an altar there to Yahweh
who had appeared to him.
12:8 He left there and went up to the hills
of the east of
He journeyed to the hills of east
and pitched his tent
with
and Ai to the east.
There he built an altar to Yahweh
and praised the name of Yahweh.
12:9 Then Abram set out
and traveled toward the
12:10 There was hunger in the area
so Abram traveled to
to stay for awhile
because the famine was severe.
12:11 Once he came to
he said to his wife Sarai:
Surely you are a beautiful woman.
12:12 When the Egyptians see you
they will say this is his wife.
Then they will murder me
and let you live.
12:13 Say you are my sister
so I will be treated better
and my life will be spared
because of you.
12:14 When Abram entered
the Egyptians saw Sarai
was a very beautiful woman.
12:15 When Pharaoh's officials saw her
they praised her before Pharaoh
and took her into his palace.
12:17 Due to Sarai’s relationship with Yahweh
an infectious disease spread
among the Pharaoh and his house.
12:18 Then Pharaoh summoned Abram:
What have you done to me?
Why didn’t you tell me
she was your wife?
12:19 Why did you say
she was your sister?
So I might take her
as my wife?
Here is your wife.
Take her and leave.
12:20 Then Pharaoh ordered his men
and they sent him and his wife away
with all their belongings.
