And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father’s house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

²And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

³I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

⁴So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.

⁵And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,

⁶Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.

⁷And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

⁸And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

⁹And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.

¹⁰And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

¹¹And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:

¹²And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.

¹³Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.

¹⁴And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.

¹⁵And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.

¹⁶And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.

¹⁷But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram’s wife.

¹⁸And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

¹⁹For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

²⁰And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away and his wife, and all that he had.

Chapter 13

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him into the south.

²And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.

³And he returned by the way, that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai,

⁴In the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he called upon the name of the Lord.

⁵But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents.

⁶Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell together.

⁷Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled in that country.

⁸Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.

⁹Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me, I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left.

¹⁰And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

¹¹And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.

¹²Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and Lot abode in the towns, that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.

¹³And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the face of the Lord beyond measure.

¹⁴And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west.

¹⁵All the land which thou seest, I will give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.

¹⁶And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

¹⁷Arise and walk through the land in the length, and the breadth thereof: for I will give it to thee.

¹⁸So Abram removing his tent, came, and dwelt by the vale of Mambre, which is in Hebron: and he built there an altar to the Lord.

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