1 The LORD said to Abram: "Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father's house to a land that I will show you.
2 "I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in you."
4 Abram went as the LORD directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
5 Abram took his wife Sarai, his brother's son Lot, all the possessions that they had accumulated, and the persons they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
6 Abram passed through the land as far as the sacred place at Shechem, by the terebinth of Moreh. (The Canaanites were then in the land.)
7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
8 From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel, pitching his tent with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there to the LORD and invoked the LORD by name.
9 Then Abram journeyed on by stages to the Negeb.
10 There was famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, since the famine in the land was severe.
11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai: "I know well how beautiful a woman you are.
12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'She is his wife'; then they will kill me, but let you live.
13 Please say, therefore, that you are my sister, so that it may go well with me on your account and my life may be spared for your sake."
14 When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw how beautiful the woman was; and when Pharaoh's courtiers saw her,
15 they praised her to Pharaoh. So she was taken into Pharaoh's palace.
16 On her account it went very well with Abram, and he received flocks and herds, male and female slaves, male and female asses, and camels.
17 But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife Sarai.
18 Then Pharaoh summoned Abram and said to him: "How could you do this to me! Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?
19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Here, then, is your wife. Take her and be gone!"
20 Then Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and all that belonged to him.
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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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