9 | Genesis 12.18

11.30 14 When had lived thirty o kindred and your father’s house to the Gen 16.1 q years, he became the father of ; 11.31 land that I will show you. 2 I will make 15 and Shelah lived after the birth of p Gen 15.7; of you a great nation, and I will bless Neh 9.7; Eber four hundred three years, and had Acts 7.4 you, and make your name great, so other sons and daughters. that you will be a blessing. r 3 I will bless 16 When Eber had lived thirty-­four those who bless you, and the one who years, he became the father of ; curses you I will curse; and in you all the 17 and Eber lived after the birth of Peleg families of the earth shall be blessed.” a,s four hundred thirty years, and had oth- 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had er sons and daughters. told him; and Lot went with him. 18 When Peleg had lived thirty years, Abram was seventy-­five years old when he became the father of ; 19 and Pe- he departed from Haran. t 5 Abram took leg lived after the birth of Reu two hun- his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, dred nine years, and had other sons and and all the possessions that they had daughters. gathered, and the persons whom they 20 When Reu had lived thirty-­two had acquired in Haran; and they set years, he became the father of ; forth to go to the land of Canaan. When 21 and Reu lived after the birth of Serug they had come to the land of Canaan, u two hundred seven years, and had other 6 Abram passed through the land to the sons and daughters. place at Shechem, to the oak b of Moreh. 22 When Serug had lived thirty years, At that time the Canaanites were in he became the father of Nahor; 23 and the land. v 7 Then the Lord appeared to Serug lived after the birth of Nahor two Abram, and said, “To your offspring c I hundred years, and had other sons and will give this land.” So he built there an daughters. altar to the Lord, who had appeared to 24 When Nahor had lived twenty-­ him. w 8 From there he moved on to the nine years, he became the father of Te- hill country on the east of Bethel, and rah; 25 and Nahor lived after the birth of pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west one hundred nineteen years, and and Ai on the east; and there he built an had other sons and daughters. altar to the Lord and invoked the name 26 When Terah had lived seventy of the Lord. x 9 And Abram journeyed 12.1 q Acts 7.3; years, he became the father of Abram, Heb 11.8 on by stages toward the Negeb. Nahor, and Haran. 12.2 r Gen 15.5; 17.4, 5; 18.18; 22.17; Abram and Sarai in Egypt Descendants of Terah 28.14; 32.12; 10 Now there was a famine in the 27 Now these are the descendants of 35.11; 46.3 land. So Abram went down to Egypt to 12.3 Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, s Gen 27.29; reside there as an alien, for the famine Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the Ex 23.33; was severe in the land. 11 When he was Num 24.9; father of Lot. 28 Haran died before his Gen 18.18; about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife father Terah in the land of his birth, in 22.18; 26.4; Sarai, “I know well that you are a wom- Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 Abram and Na- Acts 3.25; an beautiful in appearance; 12 and when Gal 3.8 hor took wives; the name of Abram’s 12.4 the Egyptians see you, they will say, wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s t Gen 11.27, 31 ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, 12.5 y wife was Milcah. She was the daughter u Gen 14.14; but they will let you live. 13 Say you are of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah. 11, 31 my sister, so that it may go well with 12.6 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no v me because of you, and that my life may o Heb 11.9; z child. Deut 11.30; be spared on your account.” 14 When 31 Terah took his son Abram and his Gen 10.18, 19 Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians 12.7 w Gen 17.1; grandson Lot son of Haran, and his 13.15; 17.8; saw that the woman was very beauti- daughter-­in-­law Sarai, his son Abram’s Ps 105.9; ful. 15 When the officials of Pharaoh saw wife, and they went out together from Gen 13.4 her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And 12.8 x Gen 13.4 Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land 12.12 the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s of Canaan; but when they came to Ha- y Gen 20.11 house. a 16 And for her sake he dealt well p 12.13 ran, they settled there. 32 The days of z Gen 20.5, 13 with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, Terah were two hundred five years; and 12.15 male donkeys, male and female slaves, Terah died in Haran. a Gen 20.2 female donkeys, and camels. b 12.16 b Gen 20.14 17 But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and The Call of Abram 12.17 c his house with great plagues because Gen 20.18; c ‌ Now the Lord said to Abram, 1 Chr 16.21; of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 So Pharaoh 12 “Go from your country and your Ps 105.14 called Abram, and said, “What is this

a 12.3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves b 12.6 Or terebinth c 12.7 Heb seed

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