1 Then the Lord said to Abram: “Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, and come into the land that I will show you.
2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
4 And so Abram departed just as the Lord had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5 And he took his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother, and all the substance which they had come to possess, and the lives which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed in order to go to the land of Canaan. And when they arrived in it,
6 Abram passed through the land even to the place of Shechem, as far as the famous steep valley. Now at that time, the Canaanite was in the land.
7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and he said to him, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 And passing on from there to a mountain, which was opposite the east of Bethel, he pitched his tent there, having Bethel to the west, and Hai on the east. He also built an altar there to the Lord, and he called upon his name.
9 And Abram traveled, going out and continuing further on, toward the south.
10 But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land.
11 And when he was close to entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai: “I know you to be a beautiful woman.
12 And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘She is his wife.’ And they will put me to death, and retain you.
13 Therefore, I beg you to say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me because of you, and so that my soul may live by your favor.”
14 And so, when Abram had arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was exceedingly beautiful.
15 And the princes reported it to Pharaoh, and they praised her to him. And the woman was inducted into the house of Pharaoh.
16 In truth, they treated Abram well because of her. And he had sheep and oxen and male donkeys, and men servants, and women servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
17 But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his house with great wounds because of Sarai, the wife of Abram.
18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and he said to him: “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife?
19 For what reason did you claim her to be your sister, so that I would take her to me as a wife? Now therefore, behold your mate, receive her and go.”
20 And Pharaoh instructed his men about Abram. And they led him away with his wife and all that he had.
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Genesis 12 tells the story of how God called Abram to get out of his homeland and go to a land He would show him. Abram obeyed God and, as a result, God promised to bless him and make him a great nation. Moreover, God promised to bless those who bless Abram and curse those who cursed him. Here are five verses related to the topics addressed in Genesis 12:
Genesis 15:6: "Abram believed in the Lord, and that was credited to him as justice." This verse speaks of Abram's faith in God and how this faith was credited to him as justice. This faith is a fundamental part of the story of Abram, which left his homeland and followed God's orders.
Genesis 17:1-2: "When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, I am the Almighty God; He walks in my presence and be righteous. I will establish my covenant with you and multiply you- Hey is extraordinarily ". In this verse, God reaffirms the covenant He made with Abram, promising to bless him and make him a great nation.
Exodus 23:22: "If you listen carefully to your voice and do all that I say, I will be enemy of your enemies and adversary of your opponents." This verse speaks of God's promise to protect Abram and his descendants, and to fight in their favor against his enemies.
Deuteronomy 1:8: "See, I gave you this land. Entre and take possession of the earth that the Lord swore to give to his ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and his descendants after them." This verse speaks of God's promise to the Abram of a land he would show him, and how this promise was fulfilled when his descendants entered the promised land.
Hebrews 11:8: "By faith Abraham, when called, obeyed and went to a place he was going to receive as an inheritance. He left, not knowing where he was going." This verse speaks of Abram's faith in God and how he obeyed God's orders, even without knowing where he was going. This faith is one of Abram's main features throughout the Bible.
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