12: 2 and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing:
12: 3 and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that disdaineth thee will I curse! and in thee shall all the families of the ground be blessed.
12: 4 So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy-five years old when he 200departed out of Haran.
200Apparently on Nisan 15. Cf. Ex 12:41.
12: 5 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.
12: 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the 201oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
201Or, terebinth
12: 7 And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him.
12: 8 And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah.
12: 9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the 202South.
202Hb. Negeb. the southern tract of Judah.
12: 10 And there was a 203famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.
203Unusually hot dry weather would cause a famine to be progressively more severe in going south.
12: 11 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:
12: 12 and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, this is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
12: 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.
12: 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
12: 15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
12: 16 And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
12: 17 And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
12: 18 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?
12: 19 why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
12: 20 And 204Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
204If Nebhepetre Ment'hotpe II (ca. BC 2055-2005), this Pharaoh had an unusually long reign.
