The Call of Abram (Genesis 26:1–5; Acts 7:1–8)
2 DRA And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed. BSB BSB: I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
4 DRA So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran. BSB BSB: So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
5 DRA And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it, BSB BSB: And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
6 DRA Abram passed through the country into the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land. BSB BSB: Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7 DRA And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. BSB BSB: Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
8 DRA And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name. BSB BSB: From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
9 DRA And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south. BSB BSB: And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.
Abram and Sarai in Egypt 11 DRA And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman: BSB BSB: As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,
12 DRA And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee. BSB BSB: and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
13 DRA Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake. BSB BSB: Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”
14 DRA And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful. BSB BSB: So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15 DRA And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao. BSB BSB: When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.
16 DRA And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen, and he asses, and men servants and maid servants, and she asses, and camels. BSB BSB: He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
17 DRA But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram’s wife. BSB BSB: The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
18 DRA And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? BSB BSB: So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
19 DRA For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now, therefore, there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way. BSB BSB: Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
20 DRA And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away, and his wife, and all that he had. BSB BSB: Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.