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Abram's Journey and Trials in Egypt

The LORD calls Abram to leave his country and travel to the land of Canaan, promising to make him into a great nation and bless all peoples on earth through him. Abram departs with his wife Sarai, nephew Lot, and their possessions. When a famine strikes the land, Abram travels to Egypt. Fearing for his life, Abram tells Sarai to say she is his sister so that the Egyptians will spare him and take her instead. Pharaoh takes Sarai into his palace, but God afflicts Pharaoh and his household with diseases because of Sarai. Pharaoh confronts Abram and sends him away with his wife and possessions.

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Abram's Journey and Trials in Egypt

The LORD calls Abram to leave his country and travel to the land of Canaan, promising to make him into a great nation and bless all peoples on earth through him. Abram departs with his wife Sarai, nephew Lot, and their possessions. When a famine strikes the land, Abram travels to Egypt. Fearing for his life, Abram tells Sarai to say she is his sister so that the Egyptians will spare him and take her instead. Pharaoh takes Sarai into his palace, but God afflicts Pharaoh and his household with diseases because of Sarai. Pharaoh confronts Abram and sends him away with his wife and possessions.

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GENESIS 12

The Call of Abram

1The LORDhad said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s

household to the land I will show you.

2“I will make you into a great nation,

and I will bless you;

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing.

3I will bless those who bless you,

and whoever curses you I will curse;

and all peoples on earth

will be blessed through you.”

4So Abram went, as the LORDhad told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five

years old when he set out from Harran. 5He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the

possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out

for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At

that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7The LORDappeared to Abram and said, “To your

offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

8From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the

west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORDand called on the name of the LORD.

9Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

Abram in Egypt

10Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while

because the famine was severe. 11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I
know what a beautiful woman you are. 12When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his

wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. 13Say you are my sister, so that I will be

treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”

14When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful

woman. 15And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken

into his palace. 16He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male

and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

17But the LORDinflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s

wife Sarai. 18So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t

you tell me she was your wife? 19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my

wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” 20Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram

to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.

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