1Now Yehovah said to Abram, Go out from your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you: 2and I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing: 3and I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse: and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. 4So Abram went, as Yehovah had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. 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 acquired 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 to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7And Yehovah appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed I will give this land: and there he built an altar to Yehovah, who appeared to him. 8And he moved from there to 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 built an altar to Yehovah, and called upon the name of Yehovah. 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 severe in the land. 11And it happened, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon: 12and 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. 13Please 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. 14And it happened, that, when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very beautiful. 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 male donkeys, and male servants, and female servants, and female donkeys, and camels. 17And Yehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that you have done to me? why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold your wife, take her, and go your way. 20And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him: and they sent him on his way, and his wife, and all that he had.