1 Now Jehovah had said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your family, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you;
2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
3 And I will bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you; and in you shall all families of the Earth be blessed.
4 So Abram departed, as Jehovah had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
7 And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar to Jehovah, who appeared to him.
8 And he removed from there to a mountain on the East of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the West, and Hai on the East: and there he built an altar to Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah.
9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was very oppressive in the land.
11 And when he had come near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, See now, I know that you are a fair woman to look upon:
12 Therefore, it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save you alive.
13 Say, I pray you, you are my sister: that it may be well with me for your sake; and my soul shall live because of you.
14 And when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very fair.
15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and men servants, and maid servants, and female donkeys, and camels.
17 And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
18 And 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 said you, She is my sister? So I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore take your wife and go your way.
20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.