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This is the account of Terah’s family line. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. |
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While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. |
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Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah. |
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Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive. |
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Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there. |
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Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Harran. | ||
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Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. |
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As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. |
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When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. |
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Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.” |
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When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. |
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| 15 | And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. |
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| 16 | He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels. |
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| 17 | But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai. | ||
| 18 | So Pharaoh summoned Abram. “What have you done to me?” he said. “Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? | ||
| 19 | Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” | ||
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Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had. |
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And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.” |
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Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” |
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He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[a] be.” |
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Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. |
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He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.” |
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But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?” |
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So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.” |
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| 10 | Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. | ||