Bible Verses

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  • Genesis Chapter 12 A Faithful Version

    The Call of Abram

    Gen 12:1  And the LORD said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house into a land that I will show you.

    Gen 12:2  And I will make of you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing.

    Gen 12:3  And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

    Gen 12:4  Then Abram departed, even as the LORD had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

    Gen 12:5  And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the people that they had gained in Haran. And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan.

    Gen 12:6  And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, unto the Oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

    Gen 12:7  And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” And he built an altar there to the LORD, Who had appeared to him.

    Gen 12:8  And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent with Bethel toward the sea and Hai on the east. And he built an altar there to the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

    Gen 12:9  And Abram journeyed, going on toward the south.

    Abram and Sarai in Egypt

    Gen 12:10  Now there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

    Gen 12:11  And it came to pass, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon.

    Gen 12:12  And it will be when the Egyptians see you, they shall say, ‘This is his wife.’ And they will kill me, but they will save you alive.

    Gen 12:13  I pray you, say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me for your sake. And my soul shall live because of you.”

    Gen 12:14  And it came to pass that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

    Gen 12:15  The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her before Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

    Gen 12:16  And he treated Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and male servants, and maidservants, and female donkeys, and camels.

    Gen 12:17  And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

    Gen 12:18  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?

    Gen 12:19  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’ And so I was about to take her to me as wife. Now therefore, behold your wife. Take her and go your way.”

    Gen 12:20  And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him. And they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

  • Genesis Chapter 7 A Faithful Version

    Gen 7:1  And the LORD said to Noah, “You and all your house shall come into the ark; for you, I have seen righteous before Me in this generation.

    Gen 7:2  You shall take with you every clean animal by sevens, the male and female. And take two of the animals that are not clean, the male and female.

    Gen 7:3  Also take of the fowls of the air by sevens, the male and the female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth;

    Gen 7:4  For in seven more days, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy from off the face of the earth every living thing that I have made.”

    Gen 7:5  And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him.

    Gen 7:6  And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters began upon the earth.

    Gen 7:7  And Noah went in; and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives went with him into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

    Gen 7:8  Of the clean animals, and of the animals that were not clean, and of the fowls, and of every thing that crawls upon the earth,

    Gen 7:9  Two by two they went unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

    Gen 7:10  And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

    Gen 7:11  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

    Gen 7:12  And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

    Gen 7:13  On this same day, Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark.

    Gen 7:14  They went in, and every animal after its kind, and all the livestock after their kind, and every crawling thing that crawls upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird of every sort.

    Gen 7:15  And they went to Noah into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

    Gen 7:16  And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him in.

    Gen 7:17  And the flood was upon the earth forty days, and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

    Gen 7:18  And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark floated upon the face of the waters.

    Gen 7:19  And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high hills that were under the heavens were covered.

    Gen 7:20  The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.

    Gen 7:21  And all flesh that moved upon the face of the earth died—of birds, of livestock, of animals, and of every crawling thing that crawls upon the earth, and every man—

    Gen 7:22  And all who breathed the breath of life, of all that was upon the dry land—died.

    Gen 7:23  And every living thing which was upon the face of the earth was destroyed, from man to livestock, and to the crawling things, and the fowls of the heavens. And they were destroyed from the earth, and only Noah remained alive, and those that were with him in the ark.

    Gen 7:24  And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.