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title: Genesis 12
slug: kjv/genesis-12
createdAt: 2024-07-17T03:47:32.804Z
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**1 **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:

**2 **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:

**3 **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.

**4 **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. **5 **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. **6 **And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite *was* then in the land. **7 **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. **8 **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. **9 **And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

**10 **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. **11 **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: **12 **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. **13 **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. **14 **And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she *was* very fair. **15 **The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. **16 **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.

**17 **And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. **18 **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? **19 **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. **20 **And Pharaoh commanded *his* men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.