Genesis 12:1-12

New American Standard Bible 1995

Abram Journeys to Egypt

12 Now ^(A)the Lord said to Abram,

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

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 It came about when he ^[j]came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a ^[k](T)beautiful woman; ^12 (U)and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.