English Bible Presentation Sharing - Genesis Book, chapter 12, verse 131 in Hcsb Version

Genesis 12 : 1 (HCSB)

The LORD said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12 : 2 (HCSB)

I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

Genesis 12 : 3 (HCSB)

I will bless those who bless you, I will curse those who treat you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you.

Genesis 12 : 4 (HCSB)

So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.

Genesis 12 : 5 (HCSB)

He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people he had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 12 : 6 (HCSB)

Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Genesis 12 : 7 (HCSB)

But the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

Genesis 12 : 8 (HCSB)

From there he moved on 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 Him.

Genesis 12 : 9 (HCSB)

Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.

Genesis 12 : 10 (HCSB)

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.

Genesis 12 : 11 (HCSB)

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are.

Genesis 12 : 12 (HCSB)

When the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me but let you live.

Genesis 12 : 13 (HCSB)

Please say you're my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account."

Genesis 12 : 14 (HCSB)

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 12 : 15 (HCSB)

Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken to Pharaoh's house.

Genesis 12 : 16 (HCSB)

He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

Genesis 12 : 17 (HCSB)

But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.

Genesis 12 : 18 (HCSB)

So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?

Genesis 12 : 19 (HCSB)

Why did you say, 'She's my sister,' so that I took her as my wife? Now, here's your wife. Take her and go!"

Genesis 12 : 20 (HCSB)

Then Pharaoh gave *his men orders about him, and they sent him away, with his wife and all he had.