{"id":51,"date":"2007-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2007\/10\/genesis-1211213.html"},"modified":"2007-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"genesis-1211213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/10\/genesis-1211213.html","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 12:1-12:13"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lord said to Abram, Go forth from your native land and from your father\u2019s house to the land that I will show you.
\nI will make of you a great nation,
\nAnd I will bless you;
\nI will make your name great,
\nAnd you shall be a blessing.
\nI will bless those who bless you
\nAnd curse him that curses you;
\nAnd all the families of the earth
\nShall bless themselves by you.”
\nAbram went forth as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother\u2019s son Lot, and all the wealth that they had amassed, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran; and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in the land of Canaan, Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, at the terebinth of Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land.
\nThe Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will assign this land to your heirs.” And he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him. From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and he built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the Lord by name. Then Abram journeyed by stages toward the Negeb.
\nThere was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.” If the Egyptians see you, and think, \u2018She is his wife,\u2019 they will kill me and let you live. Please say that you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may remain alive thanks to you.”
\nFrom Parshat Lekh Lekhah. From THE TANAKH: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society. Used by permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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