Genesis 12

The LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country, from your relatives, and from your father’s house to the land I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great. Be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever dishonors you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” So Abram went as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set out to go to the land of Canaan, and they arrived in the land of Canaan. Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him. From there he moved to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD. Then Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negev. There was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to stay there, because the famine was severe in the land. As he drew near to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ and they will kill me but let you live. Please say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you and my life may be spared because of you.” When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her before Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram had flocks, cattle, male donkeys, male slaves, female slaves, female donkeys, and camels. But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What have you done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go.” Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.

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