Genesis 12 (NET)

Genesis 12:1¹Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:8Acts 7:2-6Neh 9:7Isa 51:2Josh 24:2-3Gen 11:31-32Luke 14:26-33Gen 15:7Ezek 33:242 Cor 6:17

Genesis 12:2²Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 7:9Gal 3:14Gen 18:18Gen 17:4-6Gen 28:3-4Gen 35:11Gen 46:3Gen 26:4Gen 24:35Gen 13:16

Genesis 12:3³I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, so that all the families of the earth may receive blessing through you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 3:8Gen 22:18Acts 3:25-26Gen 27:29Num 24:9Gen 26:4Gen 28:14Gen 18:18Gal 3:16Exod 23:22

Genesis 12:4⁴So Abram left, just as the Lord had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 11:8Gen 11:31Gen 11:27

Genesis 12:5⁵And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 14:14Gen 11:31Acts 7:4Heb 11:8-9Gen 10:19Gen 14:21Gen 46:5-26

Genesis 12:6⁶Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 11:30Heb 11:9Gen 13:7Gen 35:4Gen 10:18-19Gen 15:18-21Judg 7:11 Kgs 12:1Acts 7:16Gen 10:15

Genesis 12:7⁷The 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:8Gen 13:15Gen 17:1Gal 3:16Gen 18:1Gen 13:4Ps 105:9-12Gen 13:18Exod 33:1Gen 26:25

Genesis 12:8⁸Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 4:26Neh 11:31Gen 21:331 Cor 1:2Gen 13:4Gen 28:19Acts 2:21Gen 35:15-16Gen 35:3Isa 10:28

Genesis 12:9⁹Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 13:3Gen 13:1Gen 24:62Heb 11:13-14Ps 105:13

Genesis 12:10¹⁰There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 43:1Gen 26:1-31 Kgs 17:1-182 Kgs 4:382 Kgs 6:252 Kgs 7:1-82 Kgs 8:1-22 Sam 21:1Acts 7:11Gen 42:5

Genesis 12:11¹¹As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 26:7Gen 12:14Gen 29:17Prov 21:302 Sam 11:2Gen 39:6-7Song 1:14

Genesis 12:12¹²When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 20:11Gen 26:71 John 1:8-10Matt 10:28Prov 29:251 Sam 27:1

Genesis 12:13¹³So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 26:7Gen 20:12-13Gen 20:2Gen 20:5Ezek 18:4Jer 17:5-8Gen 11:29Isa 57:11John 8:44Ps 146:3-5

Genesis 12:14¹⁴When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 3:6Gen 39:7Gen 6:2Matt 5:28

Genesis 12:15¹⁵When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 20:21 Kgs 3:12 Kgs 18:21Esth 2:2-16Exod 2:15Exod 2:5Gen 40:2Gen 41:1Heb 13:4Hos 7:4-5

Genesis 12:16¹⁶and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 20:14Gen 13:2Gen 24:35Gen 26:14Gen 32:13-15Gen 32:5Job 1:3Job 42:12Ps 144:13-14

Genesis 12:17¹⁷But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 16:21Gen 20:18Ps 105:14-151 Chr 21:22Heb 13:4Job 34:19

Genesis 12:18¹⁸So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 20:9-10Gen 26:9-111 Sam 14:43Prov 21:1Exod 32:21Gen 3:13Gen 31:26Gen 4:10Gen 44:15Josh 7:19

Genesis 12:19¹⁹Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 12:20²⁰Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 21:1Ps 105:14-151 Sam 29:6-11Exod 18:27