Leave
your country
your
family and your father's house.
Go
to a place I will show you.
12:2 I will make you
into
a great people
and
I will bless you.
I
will make your name great
and
you will be fortunate.
12:3 I will bless those who bless you
and
will curse whoever curses you.
and
the people of earth
will
be blessed through you.
12:4 So Abram left like Yahweh said
and
Abram
was seventy-five years old
when
he left
12:5 He took his wife Sarai
and
his nephew
And
all the things they had
and
the people they knew from
They
set out for the
and
to
12:6 Abram journeyed through the land
as
far as the great tree of Moreh at Shechem.
At
the time the Canaanites lived there.
12:7 Yahweh appeared to Abram
and
spoke to him saying:
To
you and your followers
will
this land be entrusted.
So
he built an altar there to Yahweh
who
had appeared to him.
12:8 He left there and went up to the hills
of
the east of
He
journeyed to the hills of east
and
pitched his tent
with
and
Ai to the east.
There
he built an altar to Yahweh
and
praised the name of Yahweh.
12:9 Then Abram set out
and
traveled toward the
12:10 There was hunger in the area
so
Abram traveled to
to
stay for awhile
because
the famine was severe.
12:11 Once he came to
he
said to his wife Sarai:
Surely
you are a beautiful woman.
12:12 When the Egyptians see you
they
will say this is his wife.
Then
they will murder me
and
let you live.
12:13 Say you are my sister
so
I will be treated better
and
my life will be spared
because
of you.
12:14 When Abram entered
the
Egyptians saw Sarai
was
a very beautiful woman.
12:15 When Pharaoh's officials saw her
they
praised her before Pharaoh
and
took her into his palace.
12:17 Due to Sarai’s relationship with Yahweh
an
infectious disease spread
among
the Pharaoh and his house.
12:18 Then Pharaoh summoned Abram:
What
have you done to me?
Why
didn’t you tell me
she
was your wife?
12:19 Why did you say
she
was your sister?
So
I might take her
as
my wife?
Here
is your wife.
Take
her and leave.
12:20 Then Pharaoh ordered his men
and
they sent him and his wife away
with
all their belongings.
