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    Genesis 12

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    Abram entered Egypt with his wife presented as his sister; Pharaoh took her into his palace, and the LORD answered with plagues. It is a remarkably brisk way for a family arrangement to become an international incident.

    The land shown to Abramvv. 1–9

    The LORD sent Abram away from his country, kindred, and father’s household with a promise of blessing, a great name, and a land still unnamed. Abram departed from Haran at seventy-five, taking Sarai, Lot, their possessions, and their acquired people, and travelled into Canaan. At Shechem, by the Oak of Moreh, the LORD appeared and promised the land to Abram’s offspring; Abram answered with an altar. He made another altar east of Bethel, between Bethel and Ai, and then continued towards the Negev.

    The sister who was a wifevv. 10–20

    A severe famine drove Abram down to Egypt. Near the border he feared that the Egyptians would kill him for Sarai and asked her to say she was his sister, which led Pharaoh’s officials to take her into Pharaoh’s palace. Abram prospered on her account, acquiring livestock and servants, while the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues. Pharaoh summoned Abram, objected to the arrangement with admirable directness, returned Sarai, and sent them away with all their possessions.

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    1. Gen 12:1Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

    2. Gen 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

    3. Gen 12:3I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

    4. Gen 12:4So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

    5. Gen 12:5And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

    6. Gen 12:6Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

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

    8. Gen 12:8From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

    9. Gen 12:9And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

    10. Gen 12:10Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

    11. Gen 12:11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,

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

    13. Gen 12:13Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”

    14. Gen 12:14So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

    15. Gen 12:15When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.

    16. Gen 12:16He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

    17. Gen 12:17The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

    18. Gen 12:18So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

    19. Gen 12:19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

    20. Gen 12:20Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.

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    • 1Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
    • 3Galatians 3:8The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”
    • 3Genesis 22:18And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
    • 3Genesis 27:29May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”
    • 3Acts 3:25–26And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
    • 22 Samuel 7:9I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like that of the greatest in the land.
    • 3Numbers 24:9He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
    • 1Nehemiah 9:7You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
    • 1Acts 7:2–6And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
    • 2Galatians 3:14He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
    • 3Genesis 26:4I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
    • 2Genesis 18:18Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
    • 2Genesis 17:4–6“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
    • 1Isaiah 51:2Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
    • 2Genesis 35:11And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
    • 1Joshua 24:2–3And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

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