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Genesis Chapter 12 (NRSVCE)

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¹ Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

² I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

³ I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” [1]

⁴ So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

⁵ Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,

⁶ Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak [2] of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

⁷ Then the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, “To your offspring [3] I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

⁸ From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and invoked the name of the LORD.

⁹ And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.

¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.

¹¹ When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance;

¹² and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

¹³ Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account.”

¹⁴ When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

¹⁵ When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

¹⁶ And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.

¹⁷ But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

¹⁸ So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, “What is this 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 for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone.”

²⁰ And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.

²¹ Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while it was alive; but when the child died, you rose and ate food.”

²² He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me, and the child may live.’

²³ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

²⁴ Then David consoled his wife Bathsheba, and went to her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he named him Solomon. The LORD loved him,

²⁵ and sent a message by the prophet Nathan; so he named him Jedidiah, [2] because of the LORD.

²⁶ Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and took the royal city.

²⁷ Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the water city.

²⁸ Now, then, gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; or I myself will take the city, and it will be called by my name.”

²⁹ So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it.

³⁰ He took the crown of Milcom [3] from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. He also brought forth the spoil of the city, a very great amount.

³¹ He brought out the people who were in it, and set them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, or sent them to the brickworks. Thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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1	Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
2	I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3	I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” [1]
4	So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5	Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,
6	Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak [2] of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7	Then the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, “To your offspring [3] I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
8	From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and invoked the name of the LORD.
9	And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.
10	Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.
11	When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance;
12	and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
13	Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account.”
14	When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15	When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
16	And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.
17	But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
18	So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, “What is this 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 for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone.”
20	And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.
21	Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while it was alive; but when the child died, you rose and ate food.”
22	He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me, and the child may live.’
23	But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
24	Then David consoled his wife Bathsheba, and went to her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he named him Solomon. The LORD loved him,
25	and sent a message by the prophet Nathan; so he named him Jedidiah, [2] because of the LORD.
26	Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and took the royal city.
27	Joab sent messengers to David, and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the water city.
28	Now, then, gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; or I myself will take the city, and it will be called by my name.”
29	So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it.
30	He took the crown of Milcom [3] from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. He also brought forth the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
31	He brought out the people who were in it, and set them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, or sent them to the brickworks. Thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

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