One Year Pray for America Bible - Flipbook - Page 28
January 5
22 When
Serug was 30 years old, he
became the father of Nahor. 23 After
the birth of Nahor, Serug lived
another 200 years and had other
sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he
became the father of Terah. 25 After
the birth of Terah, Nahor lived
another 119 years and had other
sons and daughters.
26 After Terah was 70 years old, he
became the father of Abram,
Nahor, and Haran.
27 This is the account of Terah’s fam
ily. Terah was the father of Abram,
Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the
father of Lot. 28 But Haran died in Ur
of the C
haldeans, the land of his birth,
while his father, Terah, was still living.
29 Meanwhile, Abram and Nahor both
married. The name of Abram’s wife
was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s
wife was Milcah. (Milcah and her sister Iscah were daughters of Nahor’s
brother Haran.) 30 But Sarai was unable to become pregnant and had no
children.
31 One day Terah took his son Abram,
his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son
Abram’s wife), and his grandson Lot
(his son Haran’s child) and moved
away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He
was headed for the land of Canaan,
but they stopped at Haran and settled
there. 32 Terah lived for 205 years* and
died while still in Haran.
12:1 The
Lord had said to Abram,
“Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and
go to the land that I will show you.
2 I will make you into a great nation.
I will bless you and make you famous,
and you will be a blessing to others.
3 I will bless those who bless you and
curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will
be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram departed as the Lord
had instructed, and Lot went with
him. Abram was seventy-five years
old when he left Haran. 5 He took his
wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all
his wealth—his livestock and all the
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people he had taken into his household at Haran—and headed for the
land of Canaan. When they arrived in
Canaan, 6 Abram traveled through the
land as far as Shechem. There he set
up camp beside the oak of Moreh. At
that time, the area was inhabited by
Canaanites.
7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram
and said, “I will give this land to your
descendants.*” And Abram built an
altar there and dedicated it to the
Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 After that, Abram traveled south and
set up camp in the hill country, with
Bethel to the west and Ai to the east.
There he built another altar and dedicated it to the Lord, and he worshiped
the Lord. 9 Then Abram continued
traveling south by stages toward the
Negev.
10 At that time a severe famine struck
the land of Canaan, forcing Abram to
go down to Egypt, where he lived as
a foreigner. 11 As he was approaching
the border of Egypt, Abram said to
his wife, Sarai, “Look, you are a very
beautiful woman. 12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his
wife. Let’s kill him; then we can have
her!’ 13 So please tell them you are my
sister. Then they will spare my life and
treat me well because of their interest
in you.”
14 And sure enough, when Abram
arrived in Egypt, everyone noticed
Sarai’s beauty. 15 When the palace officials saw her, they sang her praises
to Pharaoh, their king, and Sarai was
taken into his palace. 16 Then Pha
raoh gave Abram many gifts because
of her—sheep, goats, cattle, male and
female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
17 But the Lord sent terrible plagues
upon Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 So Pha
raoh summoned Abram and accused
him sharply. “What have you done to
me?” he demanded. “Why didn’t you
tell me she was your wife? 19 Why did
you say, ‘She is my sister,’ and allow
me to take her as my wife? Now then,
here is your wife. Take her and get out
