III.
Jehovah's calling
12:1—50:26
A.
The first aspect — the experience of Abraham
12:1—25:18
1.
God's calling
12:1-7
Gen. 12
:1
12:1
1Now Jehovah
2said to Abram,
aGo from your land
And from your relatives
And from your
3father’s house
To the land that I will show you;
Gen. 12
:2
12:2
1And I will make of you a
2agreat nation,
And I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a
bblessing.
Gen. 12
:3
12:3
And I will bless those who
abless you,
And him who
1curses you I will curse;
And in you
2ball the families of the earth will be
3blessed.
Gen. 12
:4
12:4
So Abram
awent as Jehovah had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out of Haran.
Gen. 12
:5
12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife and
aLot his brother’s son and all their possessions that they had gathered and the souls that they had acquired in Haran, and they
1went out to go to the
bland of Canaan. And they
2came to the land of
3Canaan.
Gen. 12
:6
12:6
And Abram passed through the land to the place of
aShechem, to the oak of Moreh. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
2.
Living by faith
12:7—14:24
a.
A life of the altar and the tent
12:7-8
Gen. 12
:7
12:7
And Jehovah
1appeared to Abram and said, To your
2aseed I will give this
2land. —
And there he built an
3baltar to Jehovah who had appeared to him.
Gen. 12
:8
12:8
And he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of
1aBethel and pitched his
2btent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an
caltar to Jehovah and
3dcalled upon the name of Jehovah.
b.
The trial of the called
12:9—13:18
1)
Famine
12:9—13:4
Gen. 12
:9
12:9
And Abram journeyed onward, journeying toward the
1Negev.
Gen. 12
:10
12:10
And there was a
1afamine in the land; and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
Gen. 12
:11
12:11
And when he was about to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, I know indeed that you are a beautiful woman to look at;
Gen. 12
:12
12:12
And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife, and they will kill me; but they will keep you alive.
Gen. 12
:13
12:13
Now say you are my
asister, that it may be well with me on account of you and
1I may live because of you.
Gen. 12
:14
12:14
And it came about that when Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
Gen. 12
:15
12:15
And Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her before Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
Gen. 12
:16
12:16
And he treated Abram well on account of her, and there were
given to him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male servants and female servants and female donkeys and camels.
Gen. 12
:17
12:17
And Jehovah struck
aPharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
Gen. 12
:18
12:18
And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Gen. 12
:19
12:19
Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now then here is your wife; take
her and go.
Gen. 12
:20
12:20
And Pharaoh commanded
his men concerning him, and they sent him away
1with his wife and all that he had.
