ULT GEN Chapter 12

God Calls Abram

12:1-9

12 Then Yahweh said to Abram, “You yourself must go from your land and from your relatives and from the house of your father, to the land that I will show you.

2 And I will make you into a great nation,

and I will bless you,

and I will make your name great,

and you must be a blessing.

3 And I will bless those who bless you,

but whoever curses you I will curse.

And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

4 Then Abram went, just as Yahweh had told him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was the son of seventy-five years when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot the son of his brother and all their possessions that they had accumulated and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. Then they came to the land of Canaan. 6 Then Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, to the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were in the land at that time. 7 Then Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

8 Then from there he went on to the mountains to the east of Bethel and pitched his tents, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to Yahweh, and he called on the name of Yahweh. 9 Then Abram set out and continued to travel toward the Negev.

Abram and Sarai Go to Egypt

12:10-20

10 Then there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there because the famine was heavy in the land. 11 And it happened that as he was about to enter Egypt, then he said to Sarai his wife, “Behold please, I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance. 12 So it will happen when the Egyptians see you, then they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ and they will kill me but let you live. 13 Please say that you are my sister so that it will go well for me for your sake and my life will live because of you.”

14 Then it happened, when Abram came into Egypt, then the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. 15 And the officials of Pharaoh saw her, so they praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16 Then he treated Abram well for her sake, so that he had flocks and herds and male donkeys and male slaves and female slaves and female donkeys and camels.

17 But Yahweh struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues on account of Sarai the wife of Abram. 18 So Pharaoh called for Abram and said, “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 to me as a wife? Now then, behold your wife. Take her and go!” 20 Then Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away and his wife and everything that belonged to him.