| 1 | Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. |
| 2 | I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. |
| 3 | I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” |
| 4 | So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. |
| 5 | Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan, |
| 6 | Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. |
| 7 | Then the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. |
| 8 | From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and invoked the name of the LORD. |
| 9 | And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb. |
| 10 | Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land. |
| 11 | When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance; |
| 12 | and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me, but they will let you live. |
| 13 | Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account.” |
| 14 | When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. |
| 15 | When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. |
| 16 | And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels. |
| 17 | But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. |
| 18 | So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, “What is this 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,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone.” |
| 20 | And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had. |
