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¹ Now Yahweh said to Abram, Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, 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 shall be a blessing;³ and I will bless those that bless you, and him that curses you I will curse: and in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

⁴ So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.⁵ And 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 gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

⁶ And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.⁷ And Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed I will give this land: and there he built an altar to Yahweh, who appeared to him.⁸ And he removed 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 Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.⁹ And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was intense in the land.¹¹ And it came to pass, when he came near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Now see, I know that you are a fair woman to look at:¹² and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save you alive.¹³ Say, I pray you, you are my sister; that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.

¹⁴ And it came to pass, that, when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very fair.¹⁵ And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.¹⁶ And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-donkeys, and male slaves, and female slaves, and she-donkeys, and camels.¹⁷ And Yahweh plagued 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's my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore here is your wife, take her, and go your way.²⁰ And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.