Genesis 12

vayyomer Adonai el-avram lekh-lekha me'artsekha umimmoladtekha umibbet avikha el-ha'arets asher arekka

GOD said to Abram, “Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

ve'e'eskha legoy gadol va'avarekhkha va'agaddelah shemekha vehyeh berakhah

I will make of you a great nation, And I will bless you; I will make your name great, And you shall be a blessing.

va'avarekhah mevarekhekha umeqallelkha a'or venivrekhu vekha kol mishpekhot ha'adamah

I will bless those who bless you And curse the one who curses you; And all the families of the earth Shall bless themselves by you.”

vayyelekh avram ka'asher dibber elayw Adonai vayyelekh itto lot ve'avram ben-khamesh shanim veshivim shanah betseto mekharan

Abram went forth as GOD had commanded him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

vayyiqqakh avram et-saray ishto ve'et-lot ben-akhiv ve'et-kol-rekhusham asher rakhashu ve'et-hannefesh asher-asu vekharan vayyetse'u lalekhet artsah kena'an vayyavo'u artsah kena'an

Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the wealth that they had amassed, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran; and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in the land of Canaan,

vayya'avor avram ba'arets ad meqom shekhem ad elon moreh vehakkena'ani az ba'arets

Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, at the terebinth of Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land.

vayyera Adonai el-avram vayyomer lezarakha etten et-ha'arets hazzot vayyiven sham mizbeakh la-Adonai hannireh elayw

GOD appeared to Abram and said, “I will assign this land to your offspring.” And he built an altar there to GOD who had appeared to him.

vayyateq misham haharah miqqedem levet-el vayyet oholoh bet-el miyyam veha'ay miqqedem vayyiven-sham mizbeakh la-Adonai vayyiqra beshem Adonai

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and he built there an altar to GOD and invoked GOD by name.

vayyissa avram halokh venasoa hannegbah

Then Abram journeyed by stages toward the Negeb.

vayehi ra'av ba'arets vayyered avram mitsraymah lagur sham ki-khaved hara'av ba'arets

There was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

vayehi ka'asher hiqriv lavo mitsrayemah vayyomer el-saray ishto hinneh-na yadati ki isha yefat-mareh at

As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are.

vehayah ki-yiru otakh hammitsrim ve'ameru ishto zot veharegu oti ve'otakh yekhayyu

If the Egyptians see you, and think, ‘She is his wife,’ they will kill me and let you live.

imri-na akhoti at lema'an yitav-li va'avurekh vekhayetah nafshi biglalekh

Please say that you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may remain alive thanks to you.”

vayehi kevo avram mitsrayemah vayyiru hammitsrim et-ha'isha ki-yafah hiv me'od

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw how very beautiful the woman was.

vayyiru otah sare faroh vayehalelu otah el-paroh vattuqqakh ha'isha bet paroh

Pharaoh’s courtiers saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s palace.

ule'avram hetiv ba'avurah vayehi-lo tson-uvaqar vakhamorim va'avadim ushefakhot va'atonot ugemallim

And because of her, it went well with Abram; he acquired sheep, oxen, donkeys, male and female slaves, jennies, and camels.

vayenagga Adonai et-paroh nega'im gedolim ve'et-beto al-devar saray eshet avram

But GOD afflicted Pharaoh and his household with mighty plagues on account of Sarai, the wife of Abram.

vayyiqra faroh le'avram vayyomer mah-zzot asita li lammah lo-higgadta li ki ishtekha hiv

Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me! Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

lamah amarta akhoti hiv va'eqqakh otah li le'isha ve'attah hinneh ishtekha qakh valekh

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife; take her and begone!”

vayetsav alayw paroh anashim vayeshallekhu oto ve'et-ishto ve'et-kol-asher-lo

And Pharaoh put some men in charge of him, and they sent him off with his wife and all that he possessed.