Kejadian 12:19--13:1

12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her ¹  to be my wife? ²  Here is your wife! ³  Take her and go!” ⁴  12:20 Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, ⁵  and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

Abram’s Solution to the Strife

13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. ⁶  He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot. ⁷ 

[12:19]  ¹ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive here expresses consequence.

[12:19]  ² tn Heb “to me for a wife.”

[12:19]  ³ tn Heb “Look, your wife!”

[12:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “take and go.”

[12:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:1]  ⁶ tn Or “the South [country]” (also in v. 3).

[13:1]  sn Negev is the name for the southern desert region in the land of Canaan.

[13:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “And Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all which was his, and Lot with him, to the Negev.”