Thematic Bible
Genesis 12:1 (show verse)
Jehovah said to Abram: Leave your country, your people, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.
Genesis 12:2 (show verse)
I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Genesis 12:3 (show verse)
I will bless those who bless you. I will curse whoever curses you. All the people on earth will be blessed through you.
Genesis 12:4 (show verse)
So Abram left, just as Jehovah told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.
Genesis 12:5 (show verse)
He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set out for the land of Canaan and soon arrived there.
Genesis 12:6 (show verse)
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great (oak) tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Genesis 12:7 (show verse)
Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: I will give this land to your offspring (seed). He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 12:8 (show verse)
From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent. Bethel was on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Jehovah and called on the name of Jehovah.
Genesis 12:9 (show verse)
Abram continued toward the Negev.
Genesis 12:10 (show verse)
There was a famine in the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while, because the famine was severe.
Genesis 12:11 (show verse)
He was about to enter Egypt. He said to his wife Sarai: I know what a beautiful woman you are.
Genesis 12:12 (show verse)
When the Egyptians see you, they will say: 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but will let you live.
Genesis 12:13 (show verse)
Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.
Genesis 12:14 (show verse)
When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman.
Genesis 12:15 (show verse)
Pharaoh's officials saw her. They praised her to Pharaoh. She was taken into his palace.
Genesis 12:16 (show verse)
He treated Abram well for her sake. Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
Genesis 12:17 (show verse)
Jehovah inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram's wife Sarai.
Genesis 12:18 (show verse)
So Pharaoh summoned Abram. What have you done to me? he asked. Why did you not tell me she was your wife?
Genesis 12:19 (show verse)
Why did you say: 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!
Genesis 12:20 (show verse)
Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.