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1 Now the LORD [Yahweh] had said to Abram, Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:
2 And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you will be a blessing:
Three promises God made to Abram
1. I will make you a great nation
2. I will make your name great
3. You will become a blessing
1. I will make you a great nation
2. I will make your name great
3. You will become a blessing
3 And I will bless those that bless you, and curse him that curses you: and in you all families of the earth will be blessed.
Abraham’s blessing would extend to believers and unbelievers.
His blessing would affect all families
God also promised he would affect everyone that he meets. Those who opposed him would be cursed and those who supported him would become a partaker of his blessing.
His blessing would affect all families
God also promised he would affect everyone that he meets. Those who opposed him would be cursed and those who supported him would become a partaker of his blessing.
4 So Abram departed, as the LORD [Yahweh] had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy 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 possessions that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite [was] then in the land.
7 And the LORD [Yahweh] appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed I will give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD [Yahweh], who appeared to him.
8 And he moved away from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar to the LORD [Yahweh], and called on the name of the LORD [Yahweh].
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 live there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land.
11 And it came to pass, when he was coming near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you [are] a fair woman to look upon:
12 Therefore it will come to pass, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, This [is] his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save you alive.
13 Say, I pray you, you [are] my sister: that it may be well with me for your sake; and my soul will live because of you.
14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she [was] very fair.
15 The princes of Pharaoh also 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 [Yahweh] 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] you have 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 to me to wife: now therefore behold your wife, take [her], and go your way.
20 And Pharaoh commanded [his] men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.