Abraham obeys God’s call
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📚✭Now the LORD had said to Abram, “Go out of your country and from your relatives and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you, 2 📚and I will make of you a great nation✭, and I will bless✭ you and make your name great, and you will be a blessing. 3 📚And I will bless✭ those who bless you, and curse✭ him who curses you. And in you all families of the earth✭ will be blessed”.4 📚So Abram left, just as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out of Haran. 5 📚✭And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the persons whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went away to go to the land of Canaan. And into the land of Canaan they came.
6 📚And Abram passed through the land as far as the place called Shechem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites✭ were then in the land.
7 📚And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land✭”. And he built an altar✭ there to the LORD, who appeared✭ to him.
8 📚And he moved from there to a mountain to the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel✭ on the west, and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD✭. 9 📚And Abram traveled on, still going toward the south✭.
Abraham in Egypt
10 📚✭And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a time, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 📚And it came about when he was approaching Egypt he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman to see. 12 📚Therefore it will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’, and they will kill me, but will keep you alive. 13 📚✭So please✭ say that you are my sister, so that it may go well with me on your account, and my soul will live because of you”.
14 📚And it came about that when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 📚The princes of Pharaoh also saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh, and so the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s✭ house. 16 📚And he treated Abram well on her account, and he got sheep, and oxen, and donkeys, and male and female servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
17 📚✭And the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with great plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai. 18 📚✭And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she is your wife? 19 Why did you say ‘She is my sister?’ I was going to take her as a wife for myself. Now then, see your wife. Take her and go”. 20 📚And Pharaoh gave a command to his men concerning him, and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.