Genesis 12 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Abram Journeys to Egypt

(Act 7:2–5 )

Gen 12:1Now the LORD said to Abram,
“[fn]Go forth from your country,
And from your relatives
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;

Gen 12:2

Gen 12:2And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so [fn]you shall be a blessing;

Gen 12:3

Gen 12:3And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who [fn]curses you I will [fn]curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

Gen 12:4

Gen 12:4So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Gen 12:5

Gen 12:5Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the [fn]persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they [fn]set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.

Gen 12:6

Gen 12:6Abram 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 12:7The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your [fn]descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

Gen 12:8

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

Gen 12:9

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

Gen 12:10

Gen 12:10Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Gen 12:11

Gen 12:11It came about when he [fn]came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a [fn]beautiful woman;

Gen 12:12

Gen 12:12and when the Egyptians see you, 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 12:14It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians [fn]saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Gen 12:15

Gen 12:15Pharaoh’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 for her sake; and [fn]gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

Gen 12:17

Gen 12:17But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Gen 12:18

Gen 12:18Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

Gen 12:19

Gen 12:19“Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, [fn]here is your wife, take her and go.”

Gen 12:20

Gen 12:20Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they [fn]escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(12:1)

Literally: Go for yourself

(12:2)

Literally: be a blessing

(12:3)

Or, reviles

(12:3)

Or, bind under a curse

(12:5)

Literally: souls

(12:5)

Literally: went forth to go to

Or, terebinth

Literally: seed

I.e. South country

Literally: drew near to enter

(12:11)

Literally: woman of beautiful appearance

(12:13)

Literally: my soul

(12:14)

Literally: saw the woman that she was

(12:16)

Literally: he had

(12:19)

Or, behold

(12:20)

Literally: sent

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Abram Journeys to Egypt

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