Genesis 12

1Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.Cross-references: Gen 11:31 · Gen 15:7 · Josh 24:2 · Neh 9:7 · Ps 45:10 · Isa 41:9 · +7 more

2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.Cross-references: Gen 13:16 · Gen 14:14 · Gen 15:5 · Gen 17:4 · Gen 18:18 · Gen 19:29 · +20 more

3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”Cross-references: Gen 18:18 · Gen 22:18 · Gen 26:4 · Gen 27:29 · Gen 28:14 · Gen 30:27 · +16 more

4So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.Cross-references: Gen 11:27 · Gen 11:31 · Heb 11:8

5Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.Cross-references: Gen 10:19 · Gen 11:31 · Gen 14:14 · Gen 14:21 · Gen 46:5 · Acts 7:4 · +1 more

6Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.Cross-references: Gen 10:15 · Gen 10:18 · Gen 13:7 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 33:18 · Gen 34:2 · +10 more

7Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.Cross-references: Gen 8:20 · Gen 12:8 · Gen 13:4 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 13:18 · Gen 15:18 · +21 more

8He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.Cross-references: Gen 4:26 · Gen 13:4 · Gen 21:33 · Gen 28:19 · Gen 35:3 · Gen 35:15 · +11 more

9Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.Cross-references: Gen 13:1 · Gen 13:3 · Gen 24:62 · Ps 105:13 · Heb 11:13

10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.Cross-references: Gen 26:1 · Gen 42:5 · Gen 43:1 · Gen 46:3 · Gen 47:13 · Ruth 1:1 · +13 more

11When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.Cross-references: Gen 12:14 · Gen 26:7 · Gen 29:17 · Gen 39:6 · 2Sam 11:2 · Prov 21:30 · +1 more

12It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.Cross-references: Gen 20:11 · Gen 26:7 · 1Sam 27:1 · Prov 29:25 · Matt 10:28 · 1John 1:8

13Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”Cross-references: Gen 11:29 · Gen 20:2 · Gen 20:5 · Gen 20:12 · Gen 26:7 · Ps 146:3 · +9 more

14When Abram had come into Egypt, some Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Gen 6:2 · Gen 39:7 · Matt 5:28

15The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.Cross-references: Gen 20:2 · Gen 40:2 · Gen 41:1 · Ex 2:5 · Ex 2:15 · 1Ki 3:1 · +10 more

16He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.Cross-references: Gen 13:2 · Gen 20:14 · Gen 24:35 · Gen 26:14 · Gen 32:5 · Gen 32:13 · +3 more

17Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.Cross-references: Gen 20:18 · 1Chr 16:21 · 1Chr 21:22 · Job 34:19 · Ps 105:14 · Heb 13:4

18Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?Cross-references: Gen 3:13 · Gen 4:10 · Gen 20:9 · Gen 26:9 · Gen 31:26 · Gen 44:15 · +4 more

19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

20Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.Cross-references: Ex 18:27 · 1Sam 29:6 · Ps 105:14 · Prov 21:1