[1] Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your
relatives, and from your father`s house, to the land that I will show you.
[2] I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name
great. You will be a blessing. [3] I will bless those who bless you, and I
will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth
be blessed." [4] So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with
him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. [5]
Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother`s son, all their substance that
they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they
went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they
came. [6] Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak
of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land. [7] Yahweh appeared to Abram,
and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." He built an
altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him. [8] He left from there to the
mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the
west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on
the name of Yahweh. [9] Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
[10] There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn
there, for the famine was sore in the land. [11] It happened, when he was
come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I
know that you are a beautiful woman to look on. [12] It will happen, when
the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, `This is his wife.` They
will kill me, but they will save you alive. [13] Please say that you are my
sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may
live because of you." [14] It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt,
the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. [15] The princes of
Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into
Pharaoh`s house. [16] He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep,
and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses,
and camels. [17] Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues
because of Sarai, Abram`s wife. [18] Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What
is this that you have done to me? Why didn`t you tell me that she was your
wife? [19] Why did you say, `She is my sister,` so that I took her to be my
wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way." [20]
Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way,
and his wife, and all that he had.
