Chapter 12 - Chapter 12

And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out ofthy country, and from thy kindred, and out ofthy father's house, and come into the land whichI shall shew thee.2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and Iwill bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thoushalt be blessed.3 I will bless them that bless thee, and cursethem that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all thekindreds of the earth be blessed.4 So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abramwas seventy-five years old when he went forthfrom Haran.5 And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot hisbrother's son, and all the substance which theyhad gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into theland of Chanaan. And when they were come intoit,6 Abram passed through the country unto theplace of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: nowthe Chanaanite was at that time in the land.7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and saidto him: To thy seed will I give this land. Andhe built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.8 And passing on from thence to a mountain,that was on the east side of Bethel, he therepitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, andHai on the east: he built there also an altar tothe Lord, and called upon his name.9 And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.10 And there came a famine in the country:and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojournthere: for the famine was very grievous in theland.11 And when he was near to enter into Egypt,he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art abeautiful woman:12 And that when the Egyptians shall seethee, they will say: She is his wife: and theywill kill me, and keep thee.13 Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou artmy sister: that I may be well used for thee, andthat my soul may live for thy sake.14 And when Abram was come into Egypt,the Egyptians saw the woman that she was verybeautiful.15 And the princes told Pharao, and praisedher before him: and the woman was taken intothe house of Pharao.16 And they used Abram well for her sake.And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, andmen servants, and maid servants, and she asses,and camels.17 But the Lord scourged Pharao and hishouse with most grievous stripes for Sarai,Abram's wife.18 And Pharao called Abram, and said to him:What is this that thou hast done to me? Whydidst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?19 For what cause didst thou say, she was thysister, that I might take her to my wife? Nowtherefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thyway.20 And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away and his wife,and all that he had.