12:1 Now the Lord said 1 to Abram, 2
“Go out 3 from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household
to the land that I will show you. 4
12:2 Then I will make you 5 into a great nation, and I will bless you, 6
and I will make your name great, 7
so that you will exemplify divine blessing. 8
12:3 I will bless those who bless you, 9
but the one who treats you lightly 10 I must curse,
and all the families of the earth will bless one another 11 by your name.”
12:4 So Abram left, 12 just as the Lord had told him to do, 13 and Lot went with him. (Now 14 Abram was 75 years old 15 when he departed from Haran.) 12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew 16 Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired 17 in Haran, and they left for 18 the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.
12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree 19 of Moreh 20 at Shechem. 21 (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) 22 12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants 23 I will give this land.” So Abram 24 built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
12:8 Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel 25 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. 26 12:9 Abram continually journeyed by stages 27 down to the Negev. 28
12:10 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt 29 to stay for a while 30 because the famine was severe. 31 12:11 As he approached 32 Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, 33 I know that you are a beautiful woman. 34 12:12 When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive. 35 12:13 So tell them 36 you are my sister 37 so that it may go well 38 for me because of you and my life will be spared 39 on account of you.”
12:14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 12:15 When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife 40 was taken 41 into the household of Pharaoh, 42 12:16 and he did treat Abram well 43 on account of her. Abram received 44 sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
12:17 But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases 45 because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 12:18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this 46 you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife? 12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her 47 to be my wife? 48 Here is your wife! 49 Take her and go!” 50 12:20 Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, 51 and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.
5:1 This is the record 52 of the family line 53 of Adam.
When God created humankind, 54 he made them 55 in the likeness of God.
5:1 This is the record 56 of the family line 57 of Adam.
When God created humankind, 58 he made them 59 in the likeness of God.
2:4 This is the account 63 of the heavens and
the earth 64 when they were created – when the Lord God 65 made the earth and heavens. 66
2:5 Now 67 no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field 68 had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 69 2:6 Springs 70 would well up 71 from the earth and water 72 the whole surface of the ground. 73 2:7 The Lord God formed 74 the man from the soil of the ground 75 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, 76 and the man became a living being. 77
2:8 The Lord God planted an orchard 78 in the east, 79 in Eden; 80 and there he placed the man he had formed. 81 2:9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, 82 every tree that was pleasing to look at 83 and good for food. (Now 84 the tree of life 85 and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil 86 were in the middle of the orchard.)
2:10 Now 87 a river flows 88 from Eden 89 to
water the orchard, and from there it divides 90 into four headstreams. 91 2:11 The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through 92 the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 2:12 (The gold of that land is pure; 93 pearls 94 and lapis lazuli 95 are also there). 2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through 96 the entire land of Cush. 97 2:14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. 98 The fourth river is the Euphrates.
2:15 The Lord God took the man and placed 99 him in the orchard in 100 Eden to care for it and to maintain it. 101 2:16 Then the Lord God commanded 102 the man, “You may freely eat 103 fruit 104 from every tree of the orchard, 2:17 but 105 you must not eat 106 from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when 107 you eat from it you will surely die.” 108