Genesis 12 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Yahweh Appears to Abram

(Act 7:2–5 )

Gen 12:1

And Yahweh^H3068 said^H559 to Abram^H87,

“[fn]Go^H1980 forth from your land^H776,

And from your kin^H4138

And from your father’s^H1 house^H1004,

To the land^H776 which^H834 I will show^H7200 you;

Gen 12:2

And I will make^H6213 you a great^H1419 nation^H1471,

And I will bless^H1288 you,

And make^H1431 your name^H8034 great^H1431;

And so [fn]you shall be a blessing^H1293;

Gen 12:3

And I will bless^H1288 those who bless^H1288 you,

And the one who [fn]curses^H7043 you I will [fn]curse^H779.

And in you all^H3605 the families^H4940 of the earth^H127 will be blessed^H1288.”

Gen 12:4

So Abram^H87 went^H1980 forth as Yahweh^H3068 had spoken^H1696 to him; and Lot^H3876 went^H1980 with him. Now Abram^H87 was seventy-five^H7657 years^H8141 old^H1121 when he departed^H3318 from Haran^H2771.

Gen 12:5

Gen 12:5So Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the [fn]persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go forth to the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.

Gen 12:6

Gen 12:6And Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the [fn]oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land.

Gen 12:7

Gen 12:7Then Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “To your seed I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to Yahweh who had appeared to him.

Gen 12:8

Gen 12:8Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Yahweh and called upon the name of Yahweh.

Gen 12:9

Gen 12:9And Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the [fn]Negev.

Abram and Sarai in Egypt

Gen 12:10

Now there was a famine^H7458 in the land^H776; so Abram^H87 went^H3381 down^H3381 to Egypt^H4714 to sojourn^H1481 there^H8033, for the famine^H7458 was severe^H3515 in the land^H776.

Gen 12:11

Gen 12:11And it happened as he drew near to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Now behold, I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance;

Gen 12:12

Gen 12:12and it will be when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Gen 12:13

Gen 12:13“Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that [fn]I may live on account of you.”

Gen 12:14

Gen 12:14Now it happened when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians [fn]saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Gen 12:15

Gen 12:15And Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Gen 12:16

Gen 12:16Therefore he treated Abram well because of her; and sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels [fn]came into his possession.

Gen 12:17

But Yahweh^H3068 struck^H5060 Pharaoh^H6547 and his house^H1004 with great^H1419 plagues^H5061 because^H5921^H1697 of Sarai^H8297, Abram’s^H87 wife^H802.