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GENESIS XII.
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getting Eber, three years and four hundred years, and will beget sons and daughters.

16 And Eber will live four and thirty years and will beget Peleg.

17 And Eber will live after his begetting Peleg, thirty years and four hundred years, and will beget sons and daughters.

18 And Peleg will live thirty years and will beget Reu.

19 And Peleg will live after his begetting Reu, nine years and two hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.

20 And Reu will live two and thirty years, and he will beget Serug.

21 And Reu shall live after his begetting Serug, seven years and two hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.

22 And Serug will live thirty years and will beget Nahor.

23 And Serug will live after his begetting Nahor, two hundred years, and will beget sons and daughters.

24 And Nahor will live nine and twenty years, and will beget Terah.

25 And Nahor will live after his begetting Terah, nineteen years and a hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.

26 And Terah will live seventy years and will beget Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 And these the generations of Terah: Terah begetting Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Ilaran begetting Lot.

28 And Haran will die at the face of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 And Abram and Nahor will take to them wives, the name of Abram's wife Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

30 And Sarai shall be barren; to her not a child.

31 And Terah will take Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they shall come forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to move to the land of Canaan: and they will come to Haran, and will dwell there.

32 And the days of Ilaran shall be five years and two hundred years; and Terah shall die in Haran.

CHAPTER XII.

AND Jehovah will say to Abram, Go for thyself from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land which I will shew thee.

2 And I will make thee into a great nation, and I will bless thee, and I will make thy name great; and thou shalt be blessed.

3 And I will praise them praising thee, and I will curse him cursing thee, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be praised.

4 And Abram went according to which Jehovah spake to him, and Lot went with him: and Abram the son of five years and seventy years in his coming out of Haran.

5 And Abram will take Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their riches which they acquired, and the souls which they acquired in Haran, and they came forth to go into the land of Canaan; and they shall come into the land of Canaan.

6 And Abram shall pass over the land to the place Sichem, to the erect oak tree. And the Canaanite then in the land.

7 And Jehovah shall be seen to Abram, and will say, To thy seed will I give this land, and he will build there an altar to Jehovah, being seen to him.

8 And he will remove from thence to the mountain from the ast of the house of God, and shall stretch forth his tent; Bethel from the sea, and Hai from the east, and he shall build there an altar to Jehovah, and will call upon the name of Jehovah.

9 And Abram will remove, going and removing to the desert.

10 And there shall be a famine in the land; and Abram will go down to Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was strong in the land.

11 And it shall be when he came near to go to Egypt, he will say to Sa-