Gen12:1 Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.
Gen12:2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
Gen12:4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Gen12:5 Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother's son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,
Gen12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Gen12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Gen12:8 From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and invoked the name of the LORD.
Gen12:9 And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.
Gen12:10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.
Gen12:11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance;
Gen12:12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
Gen12:13 Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account."
Gen12:14 When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
Gen12:15 When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.
Gen12:16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.
Gen12:17 But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
Gen12:18 So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Gen12:19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone."
Gen12:20 And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had.