1 Yahweh said to Abram, "Leave your country, your family and your father's house, for the land I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you, I will curse, and in you all peoples of the earth will be blessed."
4 So Abram went as Yahweh had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
5 Abram took Sarai, his wife, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set out for the land of Canaan. They arrived at Canaan.
6 Abram traveled through the country as far as Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." There he built an altar to Yahweh who had appeared to him.
8 From there he went on to the mountains east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There also he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
9 Then Abram set out in the direction of Negeb.
10 There was famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for some time, for the famine was severe in the land.
11 Just as he was about to enter Egypt he said to Sarai, his wife, "Now I know you are a beautiful woman.
12 When the Egyptians see you they will say: 'That is his wife!' They will then kill me, but they will let you live.
13 Say that you are my sister, so that they treat me well on account of you and my life be spared because of you."
14 In fact, when Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15 Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh. The woman was taken into Pharaoh's house
16 and because of her he dealt well with Abram; he received sheep, cattle, donkeys, menservants, maidservants, she-asses and camels.
17 But Yahweh inflicted severe plagues on Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai.
18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What have you done to me?
19 Why did you say: 'She's my sister,' so that I took her for my wife. Now, here is your wife! Take her and go!"
20 And Pharaoh gave orders to his men regarding Abram, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and all that was his.
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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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