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Genesis 12 ERV · ERV Bible Reading

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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis 12, God calls Abram.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord said to Abram, Leave your country and your people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leave your father's family and go to the country that I will show you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will build a great nation from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will bless you and I will make your name famous.
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  SPEAKER_00: People will use your name to bless other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will use you to bless all the people on earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram goes to Canaan.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Abram left Haran just like the Lord said, and Lot went with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram was seventy five years old when he left Haran.
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  SPEAKER_00: He took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, all the slaves and other things he had gotten in Haran.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he and his group moved to the land of Canaan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram traveled through the land as far as the town of Shechem, then to the big tree at More.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Canaanites were living in the land at that time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your descendants.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram built an altar to honor the Lord who appeared to them there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he left that place and travelled to the mountains east of Bethel.
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  SPEAKER_00: He set up his tent there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bethel was to the west and A was to the east.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram built another altar at that place to honor the Lord, and he worshipped the Lord there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he moved on toward Negev, stopping for a time at several places on the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram in Egypt During this time there was not enough food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just before they arrived in Egypt, Abram told Sarai, Look, I know you are a very beautiful woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Egyptian men see you, they will say this woman is his wife, then they will kill me and keep you alive because they want you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So tell them you are my sister.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then they will be good to me because of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this way you will save my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when Abram went into Egypt, the Egyptian men saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even some of Pharaoh's officials noticed her and told Pharaoh how beautiful she was.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they took her to Pharaoh's house.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pharaoh was kind to Abram because he thought Abram was Sarai's brother.
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  SPEAKER_00: He gave Abram sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and men and women's servants.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pharaoh took Abram's wife, so the Lord caused Pharaoh and all the people in his house to have very bad diseases.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pharaoh called Abram and said to him, You have done a very bad thing to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why didn't you tell me Sora I was your wife?
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  SPEAKER_00: You said she is my sister.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did you say that?
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  SPEAKER_00: I took her so that she could be my wife, but now I give your wife back to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take her and go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Pharaoh commanded his men to lead Abram out of Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Abram and his wife left that place and took everything they had with them.