Genesis 12 Verses from Genesis 12 from the book of Genesis in the Bible.

1Then the Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

2“I will make you a great people,
and I will bless you.
I will make your name famous,
and you will be a blessing.

3I will bless those who bless you
and I will curse those who curse him;
and through you
all the people of the earth
they will be blessed.”

4Abram departed, as the Lord commanded him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

5He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the goods they had accumulated and his servants, bought in Haran; They set out for the land of Canaan and arrived there.

6Abram crossed the land to the place of the oak of Moreh in Shechem. At that time, the Canaanites inhabited this land.

7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants.” Abram built an altar there dedicated to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8From there he continued towards the hills east of Bethel, where he set up camp, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar dedicated to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

9Then Abram left and continued towards the Negev.
Abram in Egypt

10There was a famine in that land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while, as the famine was severe.

11When he was arriving in Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife: “I know you are beautiful.

12When the Egyptians see her, they will say, 'This is his wife.' And they will kill me, but they will leave you alive.

13Tell them you are my sister, so that they will treat me well out of love for you and my life will be spared because of you.”

14When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.

15Seeing her, the men of Pharaoh's court praised her before Pharaoh, and she was taken to his palace.

16He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram received sheep and oxen, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

17But the Lord punished Pharaoh and his court with serious illnesses because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

18So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, “What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?

19Why did you say she was your sister? That's why I took her to be my wife. There's your wife. Take it and go!”

20Then Pharaoh gave orders to provide everything necessary for Abram to leave with his wife and everything he owned.