XPost: alt.bible, alt.religion.christian.biblestudy, alt.messianic   
   XPost: alt.christnet   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 16 , 16 Jan 2025   
      
   1) Genesis 12, Genesis 13, Genesis 14, Genesis 15   
      
   The Call of Abram   
   1 Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country,   
   your family, and your father's house to the land that I will show you.   
   2 I will make of you a great nation;   
   I will bless you   
   and make your name great,   
   so that you will be a blessing.   
   3 I will bless them who bless you   
   and curse him who curses you,   
   and in you all families of the earth   
   will be blessed."   
   4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken to him,   
   and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old   
    when he departed from Harran.   
   5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions   
    that they had accumulated, and the people that they had acquired in Harran,   
    and they set out for the land of Canaan. They came to the land of Canaan.   
   6 Then Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem,   
   to the oak of Moreh.   
   The Canaanites were in the land at that time.   
   7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said,a   
   "To your descendants I will give this land."   
   So he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.   
   8 From there he continued on to a mountain to the east of Bethel   
   and pitched his tent,   
    having Bethel on the west and Ai on the easta   
    . There he built an altar to the Lord   
    and called on the name of the Lord.   
   9 Then Abram continued his journey toward the Negev.   
   Abram in Egypt   
   (Ge 20:1 - 18; 26:1 - 11)   
   10 Now there was a famine in the land,   
   so Abram went down to Egypt to live there,   
    for the famine was severe in the land.   
   11 When he was getting near to Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife,   
   "I know you are a beautiful woman. 12 Therefore, when the Egyptians see you,   
   they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will then kill me,   
   but they will let you live.   
   13 Say you are my sister so that I may be treated well for your sake.   
    Then my life will be spared because of you."   
   14 So when Abram entered Egypt,   
   the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.   
   15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her and commended her to Pharaoh,   
   and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.   
   16 He treated Abram well for her sake and he had sheep and livestock,   
    male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.   
   17 But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues   
   because of Abram's wife, Sarai.   
   18 So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What have you done to me?   
    Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?   
   19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?   
   I might have taken her as my wife.   
   Now here is your wife; take her and leave."   
   20 Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him,   
   and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.   
      
   Genesis 12   
   [1] Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from   
   thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:   
   [2] And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make   
   thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:   
   [3] And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:   
   and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.   
   [4] So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with   
   him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.   
   [5] And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their   
   substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in   
   Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land   
   of Canaan they came.   
   [6] And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the   
   plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.   
   [7] And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give   
   this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto   
   him.   
   [8] And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and   
   pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there   
   he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.   
   [9] And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.   
   [10] And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to   
   sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.   
   [11] And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he   
   said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to   
   look upon:   
   [12] Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee,   
   that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will   
   save thee alive.   
   [13] Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for   
   thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.   
   [14] And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the   
   Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.   
   [15] The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh:   
   and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.   
   [16] And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen,   
   and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.   
   [17] And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because   
   of Sarai Abram's wife.   
   [18] And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done   
   unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?   
   [19] Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to   
   wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.   
   [20] And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away,   
   and his wife, and all that he had.   
      
   GENESIS 13   
   Abram and Lot   
   1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev,   
   he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him.   
   2 Abram was very wealthy in livestock, in silver and in gold.   
   3 He continued on his journey from the Negev and came to Bethel,   
   to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,   
   4 to the place where he first made an altar.   
   There Abram called on the name of the Lord.   
   5 Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.   
   6 But the land was not able to support them both dwelling together   
   because their possessions were so great.   
   7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of   
   Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock.   
    The Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled in the land at that time.   
   8 So Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife, I ask you,   
    between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen,   
    for we are close relatives.   
   9 Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me.   
    If you will go to the left, then I will go to the right,   
   or if you take the right, then I will go to the left."   
   10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and looked at all the valley of the Jordan,   
    that it was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord,   
   like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.   
   This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.   
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)