Genesis 12 — Rahlfs Septuagint

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And the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your land and from your kindred and from your father’s house into the land which I may show you.

2

ποιήσω σε εἰς ἔθνος μέγα καὶ εὐλογήσω σε καὶ μεγαλυνῶ τὸ ὄνομά σου καὶ ἔσῃ εὐλογητός

and I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will magnify your name, and you shall be blessed

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εὐλογήσω τοὺς εὐλογοῦντάς σε καὶ τοὺς καταρωμένους σε καταράσομαι καὶ ἐνευλογηθήσονται ἐν σοὶ πᾶσαι αἱ φυλαὶ τῆς γῆς

And I will bless those blessing you, and those cursing you I will curse, and in you all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed.

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And Abram went, just as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran.

5

And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son and all their possessions, as many as they had acquired, and every soul which they had acquired in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan, and they came into the land of Canaan.

6

And Abram traveled through the land to its length, as far as the place of Shechem, to the high oak; and the Canaanites were then dwelling in the land.

7

And the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, To your seed I will give this land. And Abram built there an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him.

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And he departed from there to the mountain east of Bethel and pitched his tent there, Bethel toward the sea and Ai toward the east, and he built there an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord

9

ἀπῆρεν Αβραμ καὶ πορευθεὶς ἐστρατοπέδευσεν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ

And Abram departed and, having gone, camped in the wilderness

10

ἐγένετο λιμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ κατέβη Αβραμ εἰς Αἴγυπτον παροικῆσαι ἐκεῖ ὅτι ἐνίσχυσεν ὁ λιμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς

And a famine happened upon the land, and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine had grown strong upon the land

11

δὲ ἡνίκα ἤγγισεν Αβραμ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς Αἴγυπτον εἶπεν Αβραμ Σαρα τῇ γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ γινώσκω ἐγὼ ὅτι γυνὴ εὐπρόσωπος εἶ

And it happened when Abram drew near to enter into Egypt, Abram said to Sarai his wife, I know that you are a woman of beautiful appearance.

12

οὖν ὡς ἂν ἴδωσίν σε οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι ἐροῦσιν ὅτι γυνὴ αὐτοῦ αὕτη καὶ ἀποκτενοῦσίν με σὲ δὲ περιποιήσονται

And it shall be when the Egyptians see you, they will say, “This is his wife,” and they will kill me, but they will keep you alive.

13

οὖν ὅτι ἀδελφὴ αὐτοῦ εἰμι ὅπως ἂν εὖ μοι γένηται διὰ σέ καὶ ζήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου ἕνεκεν σοῦ

Say therefore that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me because of you, and my soul will live on account of you.

14

δὲ ἡνίκα εἰσῆλθεν Αβραμ εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἰδόντες οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι τὴν γυναῖκα ὅτι καλὴ ἦν σφόδρα

And it came to pass when Abram entered into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.

15

εἶδον αὐτὴν οἱ ἄρχοντες Φαραω καὶ ἐπῄνεσαν αὐτὴν πρὸς Φαραω καὶ εἰσήγαγον αὐτὴν εἰς τὸν οἶκον Φαραω

And the princes of Pharaoh saw her and praised her before Pharaoh, and they brought her into Pharaoh’s house.

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And they treated Abram well because of her, and there came to him sheep and calves and donkeys, male servants and female servants, mules and camels.

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ἤτασεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν Φαραω ἐτασμοῖς μεγάλοις καὶ πονηροῖς καὶ τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ περὶ Σαρας τῆς γυναικὸς Αβραμ

And God afflicted Pharaoh with great and grievous afflictions, and his house, because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

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δὲ Φαραω τὸν Αβραμ εἶπεν τί τοῦτο ἐποίησάς μοι ὅτι οὐκ ἀπήγγειλάς μοι ὅτι γυνή σού ἐστιν

And Pharaoh, having called Abram, said, What is this you did to me, that you did not report to me that she is your wife?

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Why did you say that she is my sister, so that I took her for myself as a wife? And now, behold, your wife is before you; take her and go away.

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And Pharaoh gave orders to men concerning Abram to send him on with his wife and all that was his, and Lot with him