| English Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1Now 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. | 1Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father's household to the land that I will show you. |
| 2And 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. | 2Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing. |
| 3I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” | 3I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name." |
| 4So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. | 4So Abram left, just as the LORD had told him to do, and Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.) |
| 5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, | 5And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan. |
| 6Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. | 6Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) |
| 7Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. | 7The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him. |
| 8From there he moved 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 called upon the name of the LORD. | 8Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped the LORD. |
| 9And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb. | 9Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev. |
| 10Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. | 10There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe. |
| 11When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, | 11As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman. |
| 12and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live. | 12When the Egyptians see you they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me but will keep you alive. |
| 13Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” | 13So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you." |
| 14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. | 14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. |
| 15And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. | 15When Pharaoh's officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram's wife was taken into the household of Pharaoh, |
| 16And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. | 16and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. |
| 17But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. | 17But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases because of Sarai, Abram's wife. |
| 18So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? | 18So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife? |
| 19Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” | 19Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!" |
| 20And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had. | 20Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions. |
|
