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Abram Journeys to Egypt

¹ Now ^(C1)the LORD said to Abram,

"^(F1)Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father's house,
To the land which I will show you;

² And ^(C1)I will make you a great nation,
And ^(C2)I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so ^(F1)(C3)you shall be a blessing;

³ And ^(C1)I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who ^(F1)curses you I will ^(F2)curse.
^(C2)And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

⁴ So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and ^(C1)Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.⁵ Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their ^(C1)possessions which they had accumulated, and ^(C2)the ^(F1)persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they ^(F2)set out for the land of Canaan; ^(C3)thus they came to the land of Canaan.⁶ Abram passed through the land as far as the site of ^(C1)Shechem, to the ^(F1)oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land.⁷ The LORD ^(C1)appeared to Abram and said, "^(C2)To your ^(F1)descendants I will give this land." So he built ^(C3)an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.⁸ Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with ^(C1)Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and ^(C2)called upon the name of the LORD.⁹ Abram journeyed on, continuing toward ^(C1)the ^(F1)Negev.

¹⁰ Now there was ^(C1)a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was ^(C2)severe in the land.¹¹ It came about when he ^(F1)came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a ^(F2)(C1)beautiful woman;^12 (C1)and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.¹³ "Please say that you are ^(C1)my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that ^(F1)(C2)I may live on account of you."¹⁴ It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians ^(F1)saw that the woman was very beautiful.¹⁵ Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and ^(C1)the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.¹⁶ Therefore ^(C1)he treated Abram well for her sake; and ^(F1)(C2)gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

¹⁷ But the LORD ^(C1)struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.¹⁸ Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, "^(C1)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, ^(F1)here is your wife, take her and go."²⁰ Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they ^(F1)escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.