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1 Now the LORD Yehovah said to Abram: “Go forth from your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. 3 And I will bless them that bless you, and him that curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” 4 So Abram went, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had acquired in Haran; and they went forth to go to the land of Canaan; and to the land of Canaan they came. 6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the terebinth of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said: “To your seed I will give this land.” And he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. 8 And he removed from there, to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east; and he built there an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. {p}
10 And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he had come near to the border of Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife: “Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon. 12 And it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife;’ and they will kill me, but you they will keep alive. 13 Say, I ask you, that you are my sister; that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.” 14 And it came to pass that, when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman, that she was very beautiful. 15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16 And he dealt well with Abram for her sake; and he had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and menservants, and maidservants, and female donkeys, and camels. 17 And the LORD Yehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, “She is my sister,” so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, behold your wife, take her, and go your way.” 20 And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him; and they sent him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
Chiastic structures
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Studies
Gen 12:1-3, Finding Messiah in the call of Abram
Gen 12:1-9, Chiastic structure: Abram the sojourner
Gen 12:10-13:18, Abram’s faith tested and reaffirmed
Gen 12:17, YHVH plagues Pharaoh’s house: history that prophesies
Gen 12:1-17:27, Annual Lech Lecha, “Go forth from”
Gen 12:1-17:27, Finding Messiah in Lech Lecha
Gen 12:1-13:18, Triennial Lech Lecha, “Go forth from”
Off site studies
Antiquities of the Jews, Book I, Ch. 7, How Abraham Our Forefather Went Out of the Land of the Chaldeans – Josephus
Antiquities, Book I, Ch. 8, That When There was a Famine in Canaan, Abram Went Thence to Egypt – Josephus
Egypt and the Bible – Associates for Biblical Research
Genesis 12:1-13:18 (triennial lech lecha) – Messianic World Site
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The Biblical text is from the 1917 Jewish Publication Society edition posted by Mechon Mamre online. I have modernized words, spelling, and grammar, and aligned the verse and chapter numbers to the KJV. The linked studies, chiastic structures, and Scripture pictures are my own and are copyright © Christine Miller. All rights reserved.
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