Old Testament · Law

Genesis chapter 12

said to Abram, “ your , your family, and your father’s house, and go to the land I will show you.I will make you into a . I will and make your . You will be the for others.I will , and whoever , I will put under a curse. will .”So Abram left, just as Yahweh had told him, and went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left .Abram took his wife , his nephew Lot, everything they owned, and the in Haran, and they set out for the land of . And they arrived in Canaan.Abram traveled through the land as far as the at , at the . The were living in the land at the time.Then Yahweh to Abram and said, “I am giving this land to your .” So Abram built an there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.From there he moved on to the hill country east of and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and to the east. There he built another altar to Yahweh and .Then Abram continued traveling, moving steadily toward the .Now there was a in the land, so Abram to live there for a while, because the famine was severe.As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know you are a beautiful woman.When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘She is his wife,’ and they will kill me but let you live.Tell them you are my , so that things will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.”When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was an extremely beautiful woman.’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and she was .Pharaoh because of her, and Abram acquired sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.But Yahweh Pharaoh and his household with severe because of Abram’s wife Sarai.So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Here — your wife. Take her and go!”Then Pharaoh gave orders concerning Abram, and they with his wife and everything he had.