Genesis 12  Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh Appears to Abram

12 And ^(A)Yahweh said to Abram,

⁴ So Abram went forth as Yahweh had spoken to him; and ^(G)Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵ So Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their ^(H)possessions which they had accumulated, and ^(I)the ^[e]persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go forth to the land of Canaan; ^(J)thus they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ And Abram passed through the land as far as the site of ^(K)Shechem, to the ^[f]oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land. ⁷ Then Yahweh ^(L)appeared to Abram and said, “^(M)To your seed I will give this land.” So he built ^(N)an altar there to Yahweh who had appeared to him. ⁸ Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with ^(O)Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Yahweh and ^(P)called upon the name of Yahweh. ⁹ And Abram journeyed on, continuing toward ^(Q)the ^[g]Negev.

Abram and Sarai in Egypt

¹⁰ Now there was ^(R)a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was ^(S)severe in the land. ¹¹ And it happened as he drew near to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Now behold, I know that you are a woman ^(T)beautiful in appearance; ^12 (U)and it will be when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. ¹³ Please say that you are ^(V)my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that ^[h](W)I may live on account of you.” ¹⁴ Now it happened when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians ^[i]saw that the woman was very beautiful. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and ^(X)the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. ¹⁶ Therefore ^(Y)he treated Abram well because of her; and sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels ^[j](Z)came into his possession.

¹⁷ But Yahweh ^(AA)struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. ¹⁸ Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “^(AB)What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? ¹⁹ Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for myself as a wife? So now, ^[k]here is your wife, take her and go.” ²⁰ So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they ^[l]sent him away with his wife and all that belonged to him.