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And Jehovah saith unto Abram , `Go for thyself, from thy land , and from thy kindred, and from the house of thy father , unto the land which I shew thee.
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And I make thee become a great nation , and bless thee, and make thy name great ; and be thou a blessing .
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And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.'
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And Abram goeth on, as Jehovah hath spoken unto him, and Lot goeth with him, and Abram [is] a son of five and seventy years in his going out from Charan.
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And Abram taketh Sarai his wife , and Lot his brother 's son , and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Charan; and they go out to go towards the land of Canaan ; and they come in to the land of Canaan .
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And Abram passeth over into the land , unto the place Shechem , unto the oak of Moreh ; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land .
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And Jehovah appeareth unto Abram , and saith , `To thy seed I give this land ;' and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah , who hath appeared unto him.
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And he removeth from thence towards a mountain at the east of Beth-El , and stretcheth out the tent (Beth-El at the west, and Hai at the east), and he buildeth there an altar to Jehovah , and preacheth in the name of Jehovah .
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And Abram journeyeth , going on and journeying towards the south .
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And there is a famine in the land , and Abram goeth down towards Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [is] grievous in the land ;
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and it cometh to pass as he hath drawn near to enter Egypt , that he saith unto Sarai his wife , `Lo, I pray thee, I have known that thou [art] a woman of beautiful appearance;
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and it hath come to pass that the Egyptians see thee, and they have said , `This [is] his wife ,' and they have slain me, and thee they keep alive:
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say , I pray thee, thou [art] my sister , so that it is well with me because of thee, and my soul hath lived for thy sake.'
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And it cometh to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt , that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceeding fair;
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and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her unto Pharaoh , and the woman is taken [to] Pharaoh's house ;
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and to Abram he hath done good because of her, and he hath sheep and oxen, and he-asses , and men-servants , and handmaids , and she-asses , and camels .
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And Jehovah plagueth Pharaoh and his house -- great plagues -- for the matter of Sarai, Abram 's wife .
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And Pharaoh calleth for Abram , and saith , `What [is] this thou hast done to me? why hast thou not declared to me that she [is] thy wife ?
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Why hast thou said , She [is] my sister , and I take her to myself for a wife ? and now, lo, thy wife , take and go .'
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And Pharaoh chargeth men concerning him, and they send him away, and his wife , an all that he hath.