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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go 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 and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4So Abram departed as the LORD had instructed, 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, and all his wealth—his livestock and all the people he had taken into his household at Haran—and headed for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Abram traveled through the land as far as Shechem. There he set up camp beside the oak of Moreh. At that time, the area was inhabited by Canaanites. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants. ” And Abram built an altar there and dedicated it to the LORD, who had appeared to him. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the LORD, and he worshiped the LORD. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev. Abram and Sarai in Egypt |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10At that time a severe famine struck the land of Canaan, forcing Abram to go down to Egypt, where he lived as a foreigner. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11As he was approaching the border of Egypt, Abram said to his wife, Sarai, “Look, you are a very beautiful woman. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife. Let’s kill him; then we can have her!’ |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13So please tell them you are my sister. Then they will spare my life and treat me well because of their interest in you.” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And sure enough, when Abram arrived in Egypt, everyone noticed Sarai’s beauty. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15When the palace officials saw her, they sang her praises to Pharaoh, their king, and Sarai was taken into his palace. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then Pharaoh gave Abram many gifts because of her—sheep, goats, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But the LORD sent terrible plagues upon Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So Pharaoh summoned Abram and accused him sharply. “What have you done to me?” he demanded. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ and allow me to take her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and get out of here!” |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Pharaoh ordered some of his men to escort them, and he sent Abram out of the country, along with his wife and all his possessions. |
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