1Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Go from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.”
2And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and be a blessing.
3And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the ground will be blessed.
4So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him, and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the persons they had acquired in Haran; and they went out to go to the land of Canaan, and they came to the land of Canaan.
6And Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
7Then Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “To your seed I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
8And he moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east; and there he built an altar to Yahweh, and he called on the name of Yahweh.
9And Abram journeyed on, going and journeying toward the Negev.
10Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was heavy in the land.
11And it happened, as he drew near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance.”
12“And it will be, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ and they will kill me, but you they will let live.”
13“Say, please, that you are my sister, so that it may go well with me for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.”
14And it happened, when Abram entered Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.
15And Pharaoh’s officials saw her, and they praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
16And he dealt well with Abram for her sake, and he had sheep and cattle and donkeys and male servants and female servants and female donkeys and camels.
17But Yahweh struck Pharaoh with great plagues, and his house also, on account of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
18So 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 myself as a wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her and go!”
20And Pharaoh gave orders concerning him to men, and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.
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