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¹ For the Lorde had said vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house vnto the land that I will shewe thee.² And I will make of thee a great nation, and will blesse thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.³ I will also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

⁴ So Abram departed, euen as ye Lorde spake vnto him, and Lot went with him. (And Abram was seuentie and fiue yeere olde, when he departed out of Haran)⁵ Then Abram tooke Sarai his wife, & Lot his brothers sonne, and all their substance that they possessed, and the soules that they had gotten in Haran, & they departed, to goe to the land of Canaan: & to the land of Canaan they came.

⁶ So Abram passed through the land vnto the place of Shechem, and vnto the plaine of Moreh (and the Canaanite was then in ye land)⁷ And the Lord appeared vnto Abram, and said, Vnto thy seede will I giue this land. And there builded he an altar vnto the Lord, which appeared vnto him.⁸ Afterward remouing thence vnto a moutaine Eastward from Beth-el, he pitched his tent hauing Beth-el on the Westside, & Haai on the East: and there he built an altar vnto the Lord, and called on the Name of the Lord.⁹ Againe Abram went forth going & iourneying toward the South.

¹⁰ Then there came a famine in the land: therefore Abram went downe into Egypt to soiourne there: for there was a great famine in the lande.¹¹ And when he drewe neere to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Beholde nowe, I know that thou art a faire woman to looke vpo:¹² Therefore it will come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife: so will they kill me, but they will keepe thee aliue.¹³ Say, I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, & that my life may be preserued by thee.

¹⁴ Nowe when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman: for she was very faire.¹⁵ And the Princes of Pharaoh sawe her, and commended her vnto Pharaoh: so the woman was taken into Pharaohs house:¹⁶ Who intreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheepe, and beeues, and hee asses, and men seruants and maide seruants, and shee asses, and camelles.¹⁷ But the Lorde plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abrams wife.¹⁸ Then Pharaoh called Abram, and saide, Why hast thou done this vnto me? Wherefore diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?¹⁹ Why saidest thou, She is my sister, that I should take her to be my wife? Nowe therefore beholde thy wife, take her and goe thy way.²⁰ And Pharaoh gaue men commaundement concerning him: and they conueyed him forth, and his wife, and all that he had.