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Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you;

Now 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:

And I will make you into a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing;

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

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.

So 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.

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 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.

Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time.

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

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.

And 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.

Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.

And 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 .

Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

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.

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

It came about, when he was approaching Egypt, that he said to his wife Sarai, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman;

And 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:

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Therefore 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.

"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."

Say, 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.

Now it came about, when Abram entered Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and he gave him sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

And 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.

But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

And 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?

"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!"

Why 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.

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.