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Genesis 12

20 aligned verses; 20 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives , and from your father's house , to the land that I will show you.
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred , and your father’s household , and go to the land I will show you.
I will make of you a great nation . I will bless you , and make your name great . You will be a blessing.
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.
I will bless those who bless you , and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed. "
I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you ; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you .
So Abram went , as Yahweh had spoken to him . Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
So Abram departed , as the LORD had directed him , and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered , and the souls who they had gotten in Haran ; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
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 ,
Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
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.
Yahweh appeared to Abram , and said, " I will give this land to your seed . " He built an altar there to Yahweh , who appeared to him.
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.
He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel , and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west , and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh , and called on the name of Yahweh .
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 .
Abram traveled, going on still toward the South .
And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev .
There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there , for the famine was sore in the land .
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe .
It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now , I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on.
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai , “Look , I know that you are a beautiful woman ,
It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, ' This is his wife. ' They will kill me , but they will save you alive .
and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife. Then they will kill me but will let you live .
Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you. "
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 .
It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
The princes of Pharaoh saw her , and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house .
When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai , they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh .
He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys , and men-servants, and maid-servants , and female donkeys, and camels.
He treated Abram well on her account , and Abram acquired sheep and cattle , male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai .
Pharaoh called Abram , and said , " What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked , What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
Why did you say, ' She is my sister, ' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore , see your wife , take her , and go your way."
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 !”
Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife , and all that he had .
Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions .

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