# Genesis 12 • --- ### 1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: ### 2 And I will make thee of a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: ### 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. ### 4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram 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 unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite then in the land. ### 7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him. ### 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord. ### 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 grievous in the land. ### 11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou a fair woman to look upon: ### 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. ### 13 Say, I pray thee, thou my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. ### 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she very fair. ### 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. ### 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. ### 17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. ### 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What this thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she thy wife? ### 19 Why saidst thou, She my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take and go thy way. ### 20 And Pharaoh commanded men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.