1Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred , and from thy father’s house , unto the land that I will show thee : 2and I will make of thee a great nation , and I will bless thee , and make thy name great ; and be thou a blessing : 3and I will bless them that bless thee , and him that curseth thee will I curse : and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed . 4So Abram went , as Jehovah had spoken unto him ; and Lot went with him : and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran .
God's Promises to Abram
5And 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 . 6And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem , unto the oak of Moreh . And the Canaanite was then in the land . 7And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah , who appeared unto him .
Abram in Egypt
8And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el , and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west , and Ai on the east : and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah , and called upon the name of Jehovah . 9And Abram journeyed , going on still toward the South . 10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there ; for the famine was sore in the land. 11And it came to pass , when he was come near to enter into Egypt , that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now , I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon : 12and it will come to pass , when the Egyptians shall see thee , that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me , but they will save thee alive . 13Say, I pray thee , thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake , and that my soul may live because of thee . 14And it came to pass , that , when Abram was come into Egypt , the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair . 15And the princes of Pharaoh saw her , and praised her to Pharaoh : and the woman was taken into Pharaoh ’s house . 16And he dealt well with Abram for her sake : and he had sheep , and oxen , and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels . 17And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai , Abram’s wife. 18And Pharaoh called Abram, and said , What is this that thou hast done unto me ? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 19why saidst thou , She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her , and go thy way . 20And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him : and they brought him on the way , and his wife, and all that he had .