1Now the LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father's house, and go to a land that I will show you."
2"I will make a great nation from you. I will bless you, and make your name great. And you will be a blessing."
3"I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse the one who curses you. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."
4So Abram left, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy‑five years old when he left Haran.
5Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the goods they had gathered, and the people they had gained in Haran. They set out to go to the land of Canaan, and they came to the land of Canaan.
6Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. The Canaanite was in the land at that time.
7The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." So there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
8From there he moved on to a mountain east of Bethel, and set up his tent, with Bethel on the west and Hai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.
9And Abram travelled on, still going toward the south.
10There was a famine in the land. So Abram went down into Egypt to stay there for a while, because the famine was severe in the land.
11When he was near to entering Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at."
12"So when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will keep you alive."
13"Please say that you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and my life will be spared because of you."
14When Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15The princes of Pharaoh also saw her, and they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
16Pharaoh treated Abram well because of her. Abram had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and male servants, and female servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
17But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
18So Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?"
19"Why did you say, 'She is my sister'? I might have taken her to be my wife. Now then, here is your wife. Take her, and go on your way."
20And Pharaoh gave his men orders about him, and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.