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    "language": "en",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 12
  },
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    "n": 12,
    "bookSlug": "genesis",
    "bookCode": "GEN",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "The call of Abram: the promise of a great nation + the journey to Canaan and the sojourn in Egypt",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-12:1",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.1",
        "text": "Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father`s house, unto the land that I will show thee:"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-12:2",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.2",
        "text": "and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make they name great; and be thou a blessing;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-12:3",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.3",
        "text": "and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-12:4",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.4",
        "text": "So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-12:5",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.5",
        "text": "And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother`s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-12:6",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.6",
        "text": "And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-12:7",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.7",
        "text": "And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-12:8",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.8",
        "text": "And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-12:9",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.9",
        "text": "And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-12:10",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.10",
        "text": "And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-12:11",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.11",
        "text": "And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-12:12",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.12",
        "text": "and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-12:13",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.13",
        "text": "Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-12:14",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.14",
        "text": "And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-12:15",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.15",
        "text": "And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh`s house."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-12:16",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.16",
        "text": "And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-12:17",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.17",
        "text": "And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram`s wife."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-12:18",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.18",
        "text": "And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-12:19",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.19",
        "text": "why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-12:20",
        "verseRef": "Gen.12.20",
        "text": "And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had."
      }
    ]
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