And the LORD said to Abram, “Go — go from your land, and from your birthplace, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you.
And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great — and be a blessing.
And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who treats you with contempt I will curse; and in you all the families of the ground shall be blessed.”
And Abram went, as the LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out of Haran.
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the possessions they had gathered, and the souls they had gotten in Haran; and they went out to go to the land of Canaan — and they came to the land of Canaan.
And 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.
And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your seed I will give this land.” And he built there an altar to the LORD who had appeared to him.
And he moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
And Abram journeyed on, going on toward the Negev.
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was heavy in the land.
And it happened, as he came near to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Look now, I know that you are a woman beautiful to look at.
And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ and they will kill me and let you live.
Say, please, that you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and my life may be spared on your account.”
And it happened, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.
And Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
And he treated Abram well because of her, and he came to have sheep and cattle and donkeys, and male servants and female servants, and female donkeys and camels.
And the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues over the matter of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she is your wife?
Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for myself as a wife? And now — here is your wife. Take her and go.”
And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.
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