Genesis 12:1-20 LSV

[1] And YHWH says to Abram, “Go for yourself, from your land, and from your family, and from the house of your father, to the land which I show you. [2] And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing. [3] And I bless those blessing you, and I curse him who is cursing you, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you.” [4] And Abram goes on, as YHWH has spoken to him, and Lot goes with him, and Abram [is] a son of seventy-five years in his going out from Haran. [5] And Abram takes his wife Sarai, and his brother’s son Lot, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Haran; and they go out to go toward the land of Canaan; and they come to the land of Canaan. [6] And Abram passes over into the land, to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land. [7] And YHWH appears to Abram and says, “To your seed I give this land”; and there he builds an altar to YHWH, who has appeared to him. [8] And he removes from there toward a mountain at the east of Beth-El, and stretches out the tent (Beth-El at the west, and Hai at the east), and he builds an altar to YHWH there, and preaches in the Name of YHWH. [9] And Abram journeys, going on and journeying toward the south. [10] And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goes down toward Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [is] grievous in the land; [11] and it comes to pass as he has drawn near to enter Egypt, that he says to his wife Sarai, “Now behold, I have known that you [are] a woman of beautiful appearance; [12] and it has come to pass that the Egyptians see you, and they have said, This [is] his wife; and they have slain me, and you they keep alive: [13] please say you [are] my sister, so that it is well with me because of you, and my soul has lived for your sake.” [14] And it comes to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceedingly beautiful; [15] and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her to Pharaoh, and the woman is taken [to] Pharaoh’s house; [16] and to Abram he has done good because of her, and he has sheep and oxen, and male donkeys, and menservants, and handmaids, and female donkeys, and camels. [17] And YHWH plagues Pharaoh and his house—great plagues—for the matter of Sarai, Abram’s wife. [18] And Pharaoh calls for Abram and says, “What [is] this you have done to me? Why have you not declared to me that she [is] your wife? [19] Why have you said, She [is] my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? And now, behold, your wife, take and go.” [20] And Pharaoh charges men concerning him, and they send him away, and his wife, and all that he has.