2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and magnify your name, and you will be a blessing.

3 I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

4 And Abram went as the Lord had said to him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

5 And Abram took with him Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all the possessions which they had acquired, and all the people whom they had in Haran; and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and they came into the land of Canaan.

6 And Abram went through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak grove of Moreh. The Canaanites [lived] in this land at that time.

7 And the Lord appeared to Abram and said, 'To your seed I will give this land.' And there [Abram] built an altar to the Lord, who appeared to him.

8 And from thence he went to the mountain, east of Bethel; And he pitched his tent so that from it Bethel was to the west, and Ai to the east. and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.

9 And Abram arose, and went on to the south.

10 And there was a famine in that land. And Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, because the famine in that land was great.

11 And as he drew near to Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, 'Behold, I know that you are a woman of beautiful appearance;

12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife; and they will kill me, and they will let you live;

13 Say therefore that thou art my sister, that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live through thee.

14 And it came to pass, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman;

15 And Pharaoh's nobles also saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; And she was taken into the house of Pharaoh.