Bible Tribes

¹NOW Yahvah said to Abram, Depart from your country, and from the place of your nativity, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you; ²And I will make you into a great people, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you will be a blessing; ³And I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you: and in you will all the families of the earth be blessed.

⁴So Abram did as Yahvah had spoken to him; and Lot went with him; and Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son and all their possessions which they had gained and the persons that they had gotten in Haran, and they went on their way to the land of Canaan, and to the land of Canaan they came.

⁶And Abram passed through the land as far as the country of Shechem, and as far as the oak of Mamre. And the Canaanites were settled then in the land. ⁷Then Yahvah appeared to Abram and said to him, To your descendants I will give this land. And Abram built there an altar to Yahvah, for he had appeared to him. ⁸And from there he removed to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Yahvah and called on the name of Yahvah, ⁹And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

¹⁰Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to reside temporarily there; for the famine was severe in the land. ¹¹And it came to pass when he was about to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Look now, I know that you are a woman beautiful to look on; ¹²And it will come to pass, when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, but they will spare you. ¹³Say, therefore, that you are my sister because I will be treated well for your sake; and my life will be spared because of you.

¹⁴And it came to pass when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that his wife was very beautiful. ¹⁵The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and praised her before Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. ¹⁶And Abram was well treated for her sake; and he became the owner of sheep, oxen, he-donkeys, male servants, female servants, she-donkeys, and camels. ¹⁷And Yahvah afflicted Pharaoh and his household with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. ¹⁸So Pharaoh called Abram, and said to him, What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? ¹⁹Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her for my wife? Now, therefore, here is your wife, take her, and leave the country. ²⁰And Pharaoh charged his men concerning him; and sent him away together with his wife, and all that he had.