¹Yahweh said to Abram, "Go from your land, from your kindred, and from your father's household to the land that I will show you."

²And I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, and be a blessing.

³I will bless those who bless you, and the one who treats you with contempt I will curse; and in you all the clans of the earth will be blessed.

⁴And Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran.

⁵And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their property that they had gathered, and the beings they had acquired in Haran; and they went out to go to the land of Canaan, and they came to the land of Canaan.

⁶And Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, to the terebinth of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

⁷And Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “To your seed I will give this land.” And he built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

⁸And he moved on from there to the hills east of Beth-el and pitched his tent, with Beth-el on the sea side and Ai to the east. And he built an altar there to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.

⁹And Abram set out, going and journeying on toward the South.

¹⁰There was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was heavy in the land.

¹¹And it happened, as he drew near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Look now, I know that you are a woman beautiful to look at.”

¹²And 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 let live.

¹³Say, please, you are my sister, so that it may go well with me on your account, and my being will live for your sake.

¹⁴And it happened, as Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was exceedingly beautiful.

¹⁵And the officials of Pharaoh saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into the house of Pharaoh.

¹⁶And it went well with Abram on her account, and he had flocks and cattle and donkeys and slaves and female slaves and female donkeys and camels.

¹⁷And Yahweh touched Pharaoh with great plagues, and his house, on account of the word of Sarai, the wife of Abram.

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

¹⁹Why 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.

²⁰And Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they sent him off, and his wife, and all that belonged to him.