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So Abram went away as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the people which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; so they came to the land of Canaan.

And 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.

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land.

"Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you, and that I may live on account of you."

"Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for myself as a wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her and go!"

So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.

And the land could not support both of them while living together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.

So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are relatives!

So Lot chose for himself all the vicinity of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. So they separated from each other.

"I will make your descendants as plentiful as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can count the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.

that I will not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so that you do not say, 'I have made Abram rich.'

And He took him outside and said, "Now look toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."

So He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

So Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please have relations with my slave woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

And so after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.

So Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be upon you! I put my slave woman into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was insignificant in her sight. May the LORD judge between you and me."

But Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your slave woman is in your power; do to her what is good in your sight." So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.

So the angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit to her authority."

The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count."