Genesis 12 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Abram Journeys to Egypt

(Act 7:2–5 )

Gen 12:1And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee.

Gen 12:2

Gen 12:2And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.

Gen 12:3

Gen 12:3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Gen 12:4

Gen 12:4And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Gen 12:5

Gen 12:5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

Gen 12:6

Gen 12:6And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Gen 12:7

Gen 12:7And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him.

Gen 12:8

Gen 12:8And he removed thence towards the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel toward the west, and Ai toward the east; and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.

Gen 12:9

Gen 12:9And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.

Gen 12:10

Gen 12:10And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

Gen 12:11

Gen 12:11And it came to pass when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a woman fair to look upon.

Gen 12:12

Gen 12:12And it will come to pass when the Egyptians see thee, that they will say, She is his wife; and they will slay me, and save thee alive.

Gen 12:13

Gen 12:13Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my soul may live because of thee.

Gen 12:14

Gen 12:14And it came to pass when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

Gen 12:15

Gen 12:15And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Gen 12:16

Gen 12:16And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and bondwomen, and she-asses, and camels.

Gen 12:17

Gen 12:17And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

Gen 12:18

Gen 12:18And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

Gen 12:19

Gen 12:19Why didst thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her as my wife. And now, behold, there is thy wife: take her, and go away.

Gen 12:20

Gen 12:20And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Genesis 12 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Abram Journeys to Egypt

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