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    "content": "Genesis, Chapter 12 — 20 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Genesis 12 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Say, therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "And Pharao gave his men orders concerning Abram: and they led him away and his wife, and all that he had.",
      "citation": "Genesis 12:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
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