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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The LORD said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father's house to the land that I will show you. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I will bless those who bless you, I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The LORD appeared 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. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the LORD there, and he called on the name of the LORD. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a while because the famine in the land was severe. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me but let you live. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Please say you're my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken to Pharaoh's household. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Why did you say, 'She's my sister,' so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!" |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Then Pharaoh gave his men orders about him, and they sent him away with his wife and all he had. |
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