1 N ow the Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your family and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.

Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.

2 A nd I will make you a great nation. I will bring good to you. I will make your name great, so you will be honored.

I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.

3 I will bring good to those who are good to you. And I will curse those who curse you. Good will come to all the families of the earth because of you.”

I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

4 S o Abram left as the Lord told him to do, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

5 A bram took his wife Sarai, and his brother’s son Lot, and all the things they had gathered, and the people who joined them in Haran. And they left to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

6 A bram passed through the land as far as the oak of Moreh at Shechem. The Canaanite people were living in the land at that time.

Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.

7 T hen the Lord showed Himself to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your children and to your children’s children.” So Abram built an altar there to the Lord Who had shown Himself to him.

Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

8 T hen he went from there to the mountain east of Bethel. He put up his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

9 T hen Abram traveled on, still going toward the Negev.

So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. Abram in Egypt

10 N ow there was no food in the land. So Abram went south to Egypt to stay there, because it was very hard to live in the land with no food.

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land.

11 W hen he was about to go into Egypt, Abram said to his wife Sarai, “I know that you are a beautiful woman.

And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance.

12 W hen the men of Egypt see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ And they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

13 S ay that you are my sister. Then it may go well with me because of you. And because of you they will not kill me.”

Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you.”

14 W hen Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt saw that the woman was very beautiful.

So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.

15 P haraoh’s rulers saw her and told Pharaoh of her beauty. So the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house.

16 A nd Pharaoh acted well toward Abram because of Sarai. He gave Abram sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, and camels, and men and women servants.

He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

17 B ut the Lord sent much sickness upon Pharaoh and his house because of Abram’s wife Sarai.

But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

18 T hen Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

19 W hy did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife.’ Take her and go.”

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now therefore, here is your wife; take her and go your way.”

20 A nd Pharaoh told his men what to do with Abram. They led him away with his wife and all that belonged to him.

So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.