Now Yehowah had said to Abram, Go away from your land, and from your birthplace and your father's house, to the land which I will show you. 2 And I will make you into 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, but I will curse anyone who reviles you; and in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 4 And Abram went, as Yehowah had told him; and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance which they had gained, and the creatures which they had gained in Haran. And they set out to go to the land of Canaan; and they came into the land of Canaan. 6 And Abram passed through the land into the region of Shechem, to the terebinth* of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. 7 Then Yehowah appeared to Abram, and said, To your descendants I will give this land. And there he built an altar to Yehowah who had appeared to him. 8 And he removed from there to the mountains on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, Bethel being on the west, and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Yehowah, and called on the name of Yehowah. 9 And Abram set out, going on and journeying towards the Negeb. * Or turpentine tree

10 And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to settle there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 And when he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, See now, I know that you are a most beautiful woman; 12 and it may be that when the Egyptians see you they will say, This is his wife; then they may kill me but keep you alive. 13 Please say that you are my sister, so that it may go well with me for your sake, and so that I may live because of you. 14 And when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 Then Pharaoh's princes saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he did good to Abram for her sake; and he had flocks and herds, and asses, and male and female slaves, and she-asses, and camels.

17 Then Yehowah struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18 So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, She is my sister; so that I took her to be my wife? And now, here is your wife, take her and go. 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.