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Abram
Journeys to Egypt |
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Genesis 12:1
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Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your
country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which
I will show you; |
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Genesis 12:2
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And I will make you a great nation, And I will
bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; |
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Genesis 12:3
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And I will bless those who bless you, And the
one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will
be blessed." |
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Genesis 12:4
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So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to
him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed
from Haran. |
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Genesis 12:5
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Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew,
and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they
had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came
to the land of Canaan. |
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Genesis 12:6
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Abram passed through the land as far as the
site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land. |
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Genesis 12:7
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The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your
descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who
had appeared to him. |
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Genesis 12:8
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Then he proceeded from there to the mountain
on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on
the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of
the LORD. |
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Genesis 12:9
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Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev. |
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Genesis 12:10
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Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram
went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. |
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Genesis 12:11
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It came about when he came near to Egypt, that
he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman; |
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Genesis 12:12
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and when the Egyptians see you, they will say,
'This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. |
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Genesis 12:13
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"Please say that you are my sister so that it
may go well with me because of you, and that I may live on account of you." |
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Genesis 12:14
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It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the
Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. |
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Genesis 12:15
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Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her
to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. |
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Genesis 12:16
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Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake;
and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female
donkeys and camels. |
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Genesis 12:17
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But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with
great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. |
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Genesis 12:18
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Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is
this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? |
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Genesis 12:19
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"Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that
I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her and go." |
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Genesis 12:20
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Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and
they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him. |
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