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Genesis 8:13-12:20
English Standard Version
Genesis 8:13-12:20
English Standard Version
13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Go out from the ark, (A)you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and (B)be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.
God's Covenant with Noah
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the Lord smelled (C)the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again (D)curse[a] the ground because of man, for (E)the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. (F)Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 (G)While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, (H)day and night, shall not cease.”
9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, (I)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 (J)The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 (K)Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And (L)as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its (M)life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: (N)from every beast I will require it and (O)from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
6 (P)“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
(Q)for God made man in his own image.
7 And you,[b] be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, (R)I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 (S)I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, (T)“This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set (U)my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 (V)I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember (W)the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Noah's Descendants
18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were (X)Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and (Y)from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.[c]
20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.[d] 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine (Z)and knew what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,
26 He also said,
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem;
and let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth,[e]
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,
and let Canaan be his servant.”
28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.
Nations Descended from Noah
10 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
2 (AC)The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, (AD)Tarshish, (AE)Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 From these (AF)the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
6 (AG)The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.[f] 9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.” 10 The beginning of his kingdom was (AH)Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in (AI)the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. 13 (AJ)Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom[g] the Philistines came), and (AK)Caphtorim.
15 (AL)Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth, 16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed. 19 And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
21 To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born. 22 The (AM)sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arpachshad fathered (AN)Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber. 25 (AO)To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg,[h] for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan. 26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 (AP)Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. 30 The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
32 These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, (AQ)and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in (AR)the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, (AS)and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower (AT)with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And (AU)the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, (AV)let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So (AW)the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called (AX)Babel, because there the Lord confused[i] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Shem's Descendants
10 (AY)These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11 And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah. 13 And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber. 15 And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg. 17 And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu. 19 And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug. 21 And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor. 23 And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When (AZ)Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah. 25 And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 When (BA)Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Terah's Descendants
27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. 28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was (BB)Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, (BC)Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 Terah (BD)took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together (BE)from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. 32 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.
The Call of Abram
12 Now (BF)the Lord said[j] to Abram, “Go from your country[k] and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 (BG)And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 (BH)I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and (BI)in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[l]
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from (BJ)Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram (BK)passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to (BL)the oak[m] of (BM)Moreh. At that time (BN)the Canaanites were in the land. 7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, (BO)“To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of (BP)Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. 9 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10 Now (BQ)there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, 12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they (BR)will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” 14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
17 But the Lord (BS)afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18 So Pharaoh called 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 for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” 20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
Footnotes
- Genesis 8:21 Or dishonor
- Genesis 9:7 In Hebrew you is plural
- Genesis 9:19 Or from these the whole earth was populated
- Genesis 9:20 Or Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard
- Genesis 9:27 Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for enlarge
- Genesis 10:8 Or he began to be a mighty man on the earth
- Genesis 10:14 Or from where
- Genesis 10:25 Peleg means division
- Genesis 11:9 Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused
- Genesis 12:1 Or had said
- Genesis 12:1 Or land
- Genesis 12:3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
- Genesis 12:6 Or terebinth
Genesis 8:13-12:20
New International Version
Genesis 8:13-12:20
New International Version
13 By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year,(A) the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month(B) the earth was completely dry.
15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.(C) 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”(D)
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.(E) 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.
20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord(F) and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean(G) birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings(H) on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma(I) and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground(J) because of humans, even though[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood.(K) And never again will I destroy(L) all living creatures,(M) as I have done.
22 “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,(N)
cold and heat,
summer and winter,(O)
day and night
will never cease.”(P)
God’s Covenant With Noah
9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.(Q) 2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands.(R) 3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.(S) Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.(T)
4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.(U) 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting.(V) I will demand an accounting from every animal.(W) And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.(X)
6 “Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;(Y)
for in the image of God(Z)
has God made mankind.
7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”(AA)
8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you(AB) and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant(AC) with you:(AD) Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.(AE)”
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant(AF) I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:(AG) 13 I have set my rainbow(AH) in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow(AI) appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant(AJ) between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.(AK) 16 Whenever the rainbow(AL) appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant(AM) between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant(AN) I have established between me and all life on the earth.”
The Sons of Noah
18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth.(AO) (Ham was the father of Canaan.)(AP) 19 These were the three sons of Noah,(AQ) and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.(AR)
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded[b] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine,(AS) he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked(AT) and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,
26 He also said,
“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem!(AX)
May Canaan be the slave(AY) of Shem.
27 May God extend Japheth’s[c] territory;(AZ)
may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,(BA)
and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”
28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.(BB)
The Table of Nations
10 This is the account(BC) of Shem, Ham and Japheth,(BD) Noah’s sons,(BE) who themselves had sons after the flood.
The Japhethites(BF)
2 The sons[d] of Japheth:
Gomer,(BG) Magog,(BH) Madai, Javan,(BI) Tubal,(BJ) Meshek(BK) and Tiras.
3 The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz,(BL) Riphath and Togarmah.(BM)
4 The sons of Javan:
Elishah,(BN) Tarshish,(BO) the Kittites(BP) and the Rodanites.[e] 5 (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)(BQ)
The Hamites(BR)
6 The sons of Ham:
Cush,(BS) Egypt, Put(BT) and Canaan.(BU)
7 The sons of Cush:
Seba,(BV) Havilah,(BW) Sabtah, Raamah(BX) and Sabteka.
The sons of Raamah:
8 Cush was the father[f] of Nimrod,(CA) who became a mighty warrior on the earth. 9 He was a mighty(CB) hunter(CC) before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.” 10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon,(CD) Uruk,(CE) Akkad and Kalneh,(CF) in[g] Shinar.[h](CG) 11 From that land he went to Assyria,(CH) where he built Nineveh,(CI) Rehoboth Ir,[i] Calah 12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.
13 Egypt was the father of
the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 14 Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines(CJ) came) and Caphtorites.(CK)
15 Canaan(CL) was the father of
Sidon(CM) his firstborn,[j](CN) and of the Hittites,(CO) 16 Jebusites,(CP) Amorites,(CQ) Girgashites,(CR) 17 Hivites,(CS) Arkites, Sinites, 18 Arvadites,(CT) Zemarites and Hamathites.(CU)
Later the Canaanite(CV) clans scattered 19 and the borders of Canaan(CW) reached from Sidon(CX) toward Gerar(CY) as far as Gaza,(CZ) and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim,(DA) as far as Lasha.
20 These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
The Semites(DB)
21 Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was[k] Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.(DC)
22 The sons of Shem:
Elam,(DD) Ashur,(DE) Arphaxad,(DF) Lud and Aram.(DG)
23 The sons of Aram:
Uz,(DH) Hul, Gether and Meshek.[l]
24 Arphaxad was the father of[m] Shelah,
and Shelah the father of Eber.(DI)
25 Two sons were born to Eber:
One was named Peleg,[n] because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.
26 Joktan was the father of
Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal,(DJ) Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,(DK) 29 Ophir,(DL) Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
30 The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
31 These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.
32 These are the clans of Noah’s sons,(DM) according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth(DN) after the flood.
The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole world had one language(DO) and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[o] they found a plain in Shinar[p](DP) and settled there.
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks(DQ) and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,(DR) and tar(DS) for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,(DT) so that we may make a name(DU) for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered(DV) over the face of the whole earth.”(DW)
5 But the Lord came down(DX) to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language(DY) they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us(DZ) go down(EA) and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”(EB)
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,(EC) and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[q](ED)—because there the Lord confused the language(EE) of the whole world.(EF) From there the Lord scattered(EG) them over the face of the whole earth.
From Shem to Abram(EH)
10 This is the account(EI) of Shem’s family line.
Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father[r] of Arphaxad.(EJ) 11 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah.(EK) 13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.[s]
14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber.(EL) 15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg.(EM) 17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu.(EN) 19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug.(EO) 21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor.(EP) 23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah.(EQ) 25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram,(ER) Nahor(ES) and Haran.(ET)
Abram’s Family
27 This is the account(EU) of Terah’s family line.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor(EV) and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.(EW) 28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans,(EX) in the land of his birth. 29 Abram and Nahor(EY) both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai,(EZ) and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah;(FA) she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. 30 Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.(FB)
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot(FC) son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law(FD) Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans(FE) to go to Canaan.(FF) But when they came to Harran,(FG) they settled there.
32 Terah(FH) lived 205 years, and he died in Harran.
The Call of Abram
12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household(FI) to the land(FJ) I will show you.(FK)
2 “I will make you into a great nation,(FL)
and I will bless you;(FM)
I will make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.[t](FN)
3 I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;(FO)
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.(FP)”[u]
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot(FQ) went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old(FR) when he set out from Harran.(FS) 5 He took his wife Sarai,(FT) his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated(FU) and the people(FV) they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan,(FW) and they arrived there.
6 Abram traveled through the land(FX) as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh(FY) at Shechem.(FZ) At that time the Canaanites(GA) were in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram(GB) and said, “To your offspring[v] I will give this land.(GC)”(GD) So he built an altar there to the Lord,(GE) who had appeared to him.
8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel(GF) and pitched his tent,(GG) with Bethel on the west and Ai(GH) on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.(GI)
9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.(GJ)
Abram in Egypt(GK)
10 Now there was a famine in the land,(GL) and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.(GM) 11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai,(GN) “I know what a beautiful woman(GO) you are. 12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. 13 Say you are my sister,(GP) so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”
14 When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.(GQ) 15 And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. 16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.(GR)
17 But the Lord inflicted(GS) serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household(GT) because of Abram’s wife Sarai. 18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?”(GU) he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?(GV) 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’(GW) so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” 20 Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.
Footnotes
- Genesis 8:21 Or humans, for
- Genesis 9:20 Or soil, was the first
- Genesis 9:27 Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for extend.
- Genesis 10:2 Sons may mean descendants or successors or nations; also in verses 3, 4, 6, 7, 20-23, 29 and 31.
- Genesis 10:4 Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:7); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text Dodanites
- Genesis 10:8 Father may mean ancestor or predecessor or founder; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26.
- Genesis 10:10 Or Uruk and Akkad—all of them in
- Genesis 10:10 That is, Babylonia
- Genesis 10:11 Or Nineveh with its city squares
- Genesis 10:15 Or of the Sidonians, the foremost
- Genesis 10:21 Or Shem, the older brother of
- Genesis 10:23 See Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:17; Hebrew Mash.
- Genesis 10:24 Hebrew; Septuagint father of Cainan, and Cainan was the father of
- Genesis 10:25 Peleg means division.
- Genesis 11:2 Or from the east; or in the east
- Genesis 11:2 That is, Babylonia
- Genesis 11:9 That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.
- Genesis 11:10 Father may mean ancestor; also in verses 11-25.
- Genesis 11:13 Hebrew; Septuagint (see also Luke 3:35, 36 and note at Gen. 10:24) 35 years, he became the father of Cainan. 13 And after he became the father of Cainan, Arphaxad lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters, and then he died. When Cainan had lived 130 years, he became the father of Shelah. And after he became the father of Shelah, Cainan lived 330 years and had other sons and daughters
- Genesis 12:2 Or be seen as blessed
- Genesis 12:3 Or earth / will use your name in blessings (see 48:20)
- Genesis 12:7 Or seed
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