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God calleth Abram.

And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat ons and daughters.

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat ons and daughters.

And Terah lived eventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

¶ Now thee are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Icah.

But Sarai was barren; he had no child.

¶ And Terah took Abram his on, and Lot the on of Haran his on's on, and Sarai his daughter in law, his on Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

1 God calleth Abram, and bleeth him with a promie of Chrit. 4 He with Lot departeth from Haran. 6 He journeyeth through Canaan, which is promied him in a viion. 10 He is driven by a famine into Egypt, where fear maketh him feign his wife to be his iter. 14 Pharaoh taketh her into his houe, but by plagues is compelled to retore her; and endeth Abram away.

the had aid unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's houe, unto a land that I will hew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bles thee, and make thy name great; and thou halt be a bleing:

And I will bles them that bles thee, and cure him that cureth thee: and in thee hall all families of the earth be bleed.

¶ So Abram departed, as the had poken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was eventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's on, and all their ubtance that they had gathered, and the ouls 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.

¶ And Abram paed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

And the appeared unto Abram, and aid, Unto thy eed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the, who appeared unto him.

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the eat of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the wet, and Hai on the eat: and there he builded an altar unto the, and called upon the name of the.

And Abram journeyed, † going on till toward the outh.

¶ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to ojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

And it came to pas, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he aid unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

Therefore it hall come to pas, when the Egyptians hall ee thee, that they hall ay, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will ave thee alive.

Say, I pray thee, thou art my iter: that it may be well with me for thy ake; and my oul hall live becaue of thee.

¶ And it came to pas, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that he was very fair.

The princes alo of Pharaoh aw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's houe.

And he entreated Abram well for her ake: and he had heep, and oxen, and he aes, and menervants, and maidervants, and he aes, and camels.

And the plagued Pharaoh and his houe with great plagues becaue of Sarai Abram's wife.

And Pharaoh called Abram, and aid, What is this that thou hat done unto me? why didt thou not tell me that he was thy wife?

Why aidt thou, She is my iter? o I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they ent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.