1 Now Yehovah had said to Abram,
“Leave your country,
and your relatives,
and your father’s house,
and go to the land that I will show you.
2 And I will make of you a great nation,
and I will bless you and make your name great,
and you will be a blessing.
3 And I will bless those who bless you,
and I will curse him who curses you.
And all the clans of the earth will be blessed through you.”
4 And Abram went, as Yehovah had told him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Ḥarran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the people whom they had acquired in Ḥarran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. And they entered the land of Canaan. 6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And at that time, the Canaanite was in the land.
7 And Yehovah appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” And he built an altar there to Yehovah, who had appeared to him. 8 And he moved on from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel toward the sea, and Heap-of-Ruins on the east. And he built an altar there to Yehovah and called on Yehovah’s name. 9 And Abram travelled on, walking and travelling on toward the Negev.
10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 And it was, when he had come close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Look now, I know that you are a good-looking woman. 12 It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ and they will kill me, but you they will save alive. 13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be good for me because of you, and that I myself may live because of you.”
14 And when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 And Pharaoh’s princes saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16 And he did good to Abram because of her. And he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
17 But Yehovah afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 And 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 for myself as a wife? And now, here is your wife! Take her, and go!” 20 And Pharaoh gave men orders about him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that was his.