9:1 Then ¹  the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky ²  to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss. ³  9:2 He ⁴  opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it ⁵  like smoke from a giant furnace. The ⁶  sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft. 9:3 Then ⁷  out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power ⁸  like that of the scorpions of the earth. 9:4 They ⁹  were told ¹⁰  not to damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people ¹¹  who did not have the seal of God on their ¹²  forehead. 9:5 The locusts ¹³  were not given permission ¹⁴  to kill ¹⁵  them, but only to torture ¹⁶  them ¹⁷  for five months, and their torture was like that ¹⁸  of a scorpion when it stings a person. ¹⁹  9:6 In ²⁰  those days people ²¹  will seek death, but ²²  will not be able to ²³  find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

9:7 Now ²⁴  the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On ²⁵  their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, ²⁶  and their faces looked like men’s ²⁷  faces. 9:8 They ²⁸  had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9:9 They had breastplates ²⁹  like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle. 9:10 They have ³⁰  tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability ³¹  to injure people for five months is in their tails. 9:11 They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. ³² 

12:3 I will bless those who bless you, ¹ 

but the one who treats you lightly ²  I must curse,

and all the families of the earth will bless one another ³  by your name.”

12:4 So Abram left, ⁴  just as the Lord had told him to do, ⁵  and Lot went with him. (Now ⁶  Abram was 75 years old ⁷  when he departed from Haran.) 12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew ⁸  Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired ⁹  in Haran, and they left for ¹⁰  the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

12:6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree ¹¹  of Moreh ¹²  at Shechem. ¹³  (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.) ¹⁴  12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants ¹⁵  I will give this land.” So Abram ¹⁶  built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

12:8 Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel ¹⁷  and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord. ¹⁸  12:9 Abram continually journeyed by stages ¹⁹  down to the Negev. ²⁰ 

12:10 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt ²¹  to stay for a while ²²  because the famine was severe. ²³  12:11 As he approached ²⁴  Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, ²⁵  I know that you are a beautiful woman. ²⁶  12:12 When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive. ²⁷  12:13 So tell them ²⁸  you are my sister ²⁹  so that it may go well ³⁰  for me because of you and my life will be spared ³¹  on account of you.”

12:14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 12:15 When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife ³²  was taken ³³  into the household of Pharaoh, ³⁴  12:16 and he did treat Abram well ³⁵  on account of her. Abram received ³⁶  sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

12:17 But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe diseases ³⁷  because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

16:13 So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” ¹  for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!” ²  16:14 That is why the well was called ³  Beer Lahai Roi. ⁴  (It is located ⁵  between Kadesh and Bered.)