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Genesis 12

God calls Abram to leave his country and family for a land he will be shown. He promises to make him a great nation and to bless all the families of the earth through him. Abram goes, builds altars, and then lies about Sarai in Egypt out of fear.

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Key verses

  • Verse 1Faith starts with leaving the familiar at God's word.
  • Verse 2God promises to make Abram's family a great nation.
  • Verse 3Through Abram's family God plans to bless the whole world.

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:SelectedGenesis 12:1Ask

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:SelectedGenesis 12:2Ask

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.SelectedGenesis 12:3Ask

So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.SelectedGenesis 12:4Ask

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 gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.SelectedGenesis 12:5Ask

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.SelectedGenesis 12:6Ask

And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.SelectedGenesis 12:7Ask

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.SelectedGenesis 12:8Ask

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.SelectedGenesis 12:9Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 12:10Ask

And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:SelectedGenesis 12:11Ask

Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.SelectedGenesis 12:12Ask

Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.SelectedGenesis 12:13Ask

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.SelectedGenesis 12:14Ask

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.SelectedGenesis 12:15Ask

And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.SelectedGenesis 12:16Ask

And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.SelectedGenesis 12:17Ask

And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?SelectedGenesis 12:18Ask

Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.SelectedGenesis 12:19Ask

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.SelectedGenesis 12:20Ask

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