1 Now the LORD said unto Abram, “Go out from your country and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, into the land that I will show you;
2 and I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you will be a blessing;
3 and I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you; and in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”
4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the souls that they had made 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 Shechem, unto the oak[a] of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.
7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, “Unto your seed I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
8 And he went 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 unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
9 And Abram journeyed, traveling continuously into the south.
10 And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was severe.
11 And it came to pass, when he was near the land of Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Behold now, I know that you are a woman of great beauty,”
12 “and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife;’ and they will kill me, but they will keep you alive.”
13 “Please say that you are my sister, that it may go well with me for your sake, and that my soul will live because of you.”
14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into the house of Pharaoh.
16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake; and he had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys; servants and handmaids, and female donkeys, and camels.
17 And the LORD afflicted 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 is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and go thy way.”
20 And Pharaoh commanded his men commandment concerning Abram; then they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
[3] GNV heading “Christ is promised.”
[6] The oak(s) there were terebinth trees.
[9] Hebrew Negeb, the southern tract of Judah. Going and traveling in intervals, staying here and there for a week or a month, towards the south of Israel (Jerusalem); thus Judah takes it’s portion from the south of Israel.
[12] The morality in Egypt was such that they would not commit adultery with a married woman, but they would kill her husband first to take her.
[17] lit. ‘according to her words’ — Sarai would say to the angel ‘strike’ and the angel would strike.