Genesis 12
1NOW the Lord said to Abram, Depart from thy land and from thy kindred and from the house of thy father and come to the land which I will shew thee,
2and I will make thee a great nation; and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed;
3and I will bless them, who bless thee; and those who curse thee I will curse: and by thee all the tribes of the earth shalt be blessed.
4So Abram went as the Lord commanded him, and Lot went with him.
Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he came out of Charran.
5And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance which they possessed, and every living creature which they had, and set out from Charran to go to the land of Chanaan.
6And Abram travelled through the land lengthwise till he came to the place of Sychem to the lofty oak.
Now the Chananites at that time inhabited that land.
7And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, To thy seed I will give this land. So Abram built there an altar to the Lord who appeared to him.
8And from that place he went to the mountain east of Baithel and there pitched his tent, having Baithel on the west and Aggai on the east, and built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.
9And Abram removed and proceeding forward encamped in the wilderness.
10And there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.
11And when Abram was near entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sara, I know that because thou art a beautiful woman,
12it will therefore come to pass that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife, and they will kill me; but thee they will save alive.
13Say thou therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my life will be preserved for thy sake.
14So when Abram came into Egypt the Egyptians beheld his wife, for she was very beautiful;
15and when the princes of Pharaoh saw her they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was brought to Pharaoh’s house.
16And they treated Abram well for her sake, though he had sheep and oxen and asses and men servants and maid servants and mules and camels.
17But God visited Pharaoh and his family with great and grievous plagues because of Sara the wife of Abram.
18And Pharaoh called Abram and said, Why hast thou acted thus with me and didst not tell me that she is thy wife?
19Why didst thou say, She is my sister? I indeed took her to be my wife, but now there is thy wife before thee. Take her and begone.
20And Pharaoh gave strict orders to men touching Abram, to convoy away him and his wife and all that he had.