Genesis 12 (NET)

Genesis 12:1¹Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:2²Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:3³I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, so that all the families of the earth may receive blessing through you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:4⁴So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:5⁵And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:6⁶Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:7⁷The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:8⁸Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:9⁹Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:10¹⁰There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:11¹¹As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:12¹²When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:13¹³So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:14¹⁴When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:15¹⁵When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:16¹⁶and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:17¹⁷But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:18¹⁸So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:19¹⁹Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Genesis 12:20²⁰Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions