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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. |
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