The Development of the Family of Terah
27Now this is the account about the development[] of the family of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot. 28Haran died before his father Terah. He died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
29Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, who was also the father of Iscah. 30Sarai was barren. She had no child.
31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, who was the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, who was the wife of his son Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there. 32The days of Terah were 205 years. Terah died in Haran.
The Call of Abram
121Now the Lord said to Abram, “Get out of your country and away from your relatives and from your father's house and go to the land that I will show you. 2I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. 3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse anyone who dishonors you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”
4So Abram went, as the Lord had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to travel to the land of Canaan. Eventually they arrived in the land of Canaan. 6Abram passed through the land until he came to the Oak of Moreh at the place called Shechem. The Canaanites were in the land at that time.
7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants.”[] Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent there, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and proclaimed[] the name of the Lord. 9Abram pulled out from there and kept traveling toward the Negev.[] The First Trip to Egypt
10There was a famine in the land. So Abram went down into Egypt to stay there for a while, because the famine was severe in the land. 11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman. 12It might happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will keep you alive. 13Please say that you are my sister, so that it will go well for me because of you, and that my life may be preserved on account of you.”
14So it happened that when Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians did see that the woman was very beautiful. 15Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16He treated Abram well for her sake. Abram received sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
17But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with severe diseases[] because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this that 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 to be my wife? Here is your wife. Take her and go.” 20Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him, so they sent him on his way with his wife and all that he had.
