1400.
The subject of perceptions and of the spheres arising from these is continued, as may be seen, at the end of the chapter.
GENESIS 12
And Jehovah said to Abram, Go away from your land, and from
the place of your nativity and from your father's house, to the land which I will cause you to see.
And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and
will make your name great;
and you will be a blessing.
And I will bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you, and in you will all the families of the ground be blessed.
And Abram went, as Jehovah had
told him; and Lot went with him. And Abram was a son of seventy-five years when he went out of Haran.
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their acquisitions that they
had acquired, and [every] soul which they had gained in Haran. And they came out to go into the land of Canaan; and they came into the land of Canaan.
And Abram went through the land as far
as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak-grove of Moreh. And the Canaanite was at that time in the land.
And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, To your seed will I give this land; and there he
built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him.
And he removed from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, Bethel being towards the sea and Ai towards the east.a And
there he built an altar to Jehovah and called on the name of Jehovah.
And Abram travelled, going on and travelling, towards the south.
And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went
down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine in the land was serious.
And it happened, when he drew near to come into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a
beautiful woman to look upon.
And it will be, when the Egyptians see you they will say, This is his wife, and they will slay me and let you live.
Say, now, you are my sister, so that it may
go well for me for your sake, and my soul may live because of you.
And it happened, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.
And Pharaoh's
princes saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken to Pharaoh's house.
And he treated Abram well for her sake; and he had flocks and herds, and asses and menservants, and maidservants
and she-asses, and camels.
And Jehovah struck Pharaoh with great plagues, and his house, because of Sarai,b Abram's wife.
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this you
have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she is your wife?
Why did you say, She is my sister? I might have taken her to be my wife (mulier). And now, behold your wife, take her and go.
And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him, and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
Notes
a lit. Bethel from the sea (an idiom for from the west) and Ai from the east
b lit. because
of the word (or matter) of Sarai
