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Genesis 12

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Genesis 12 Bible text

WEB: 1WEB

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

ASV: 1ASV

Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee:

WEB: 2WEB

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

ASV: 2ASV

and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing:

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I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

ASV: 3ASV

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

WEB: 4WEB

So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

ASV: 4ASV

So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

WEB: 5WEB

Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.

ASV: 5ASV

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.

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Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

ASV: 6ASV

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

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Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”

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And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him.

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He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

ASV: 8ASV

And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah.

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Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.

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And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

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There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

WEB: 11WEB

When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

ASV: 11ASV

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:

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It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

ASV: 12ASV

and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

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Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

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Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.

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When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

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

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The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

ASV: 15ASV

And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

WEB: 16WEB

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

ASV: 16ASV

And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.

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Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

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And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

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Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

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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?

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Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

ASV: 19ASV

why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

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Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.

ASV: 20ASV

And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.