Genesis 12

¹And our Lord said to Abram: Go forth of thy country, and out of thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into a land which I will shew thee.

²And I will make thee into a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

³I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN Thee shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

⁴Abram therefore went out as our Lord had commanded him, and with him went Lot: seventy five years old was Abraham when he went forth out of Haran.

⁵And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the substance which they had possessed, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and went forth to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it.

⁶Abram passed through the country unto the place Sichem, as far as the noble vale: and the Chananite was at that time in the country.

⁷And our Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. Who builded there an altar to our Lord, that had appeared to him.

⁸And marching on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, there he pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he builded there also an altar to our Lord, and called upon his name.

⁹And Abram went forward going, and proceeding on to the south.

¹⁰And there came a famine in the country: and Abram descended into Ægypt, to be as a pilgrim there: for the famine was very sore in the land.

¹¹And when he was near to enter into Ægypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a fair woman,

¹²and that when the Ægyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife; and they will kill me, and reserve thee.

¹³Say therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be well used for thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake.

¹⁴When Abram therefore was entered into Ægypt, the Ægyptians, saw the woman that she was passing beautiful.

¹⁵And the Princes told Pharao, and praised her to him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.

¹⁶And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and Camels.

¹⁷And our Lord scourged Pharao with very sore plagues, and his house, for Sarai Abram's wife.

¹⁸And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

¹⁹For what cause didst thou say she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therefore there is thy wife, take her, and go thy ways.

²⁰And Pharao gave certain men commandment in the behalf of Abram: and they conducted him, and his wife, and all that he had.