RWebster - Genesis - 12

12:1  Now the LORD had said to Abram, Depart from thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, to a land that I will show thee:

12:2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

12:3  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.

12:4  So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed from Haran.

12:5  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 to go forth into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

12:6  And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

12:7  And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To thy seed will I give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.

12:8  And he departed from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he built an altar to the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

12:9  And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

12:10  And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to dwell there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

12:11  And it came to pass, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

12:12  Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

12:13  Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

12:14  And it came to pass, that, when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

12:15  The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

12:16  And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and male donkeys, and male and female servants, and female donkeys, and camels.

12:17  And the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

12:18  And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done to me? why didst thou not tell me that she is thy wife?

12:19  Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me for a wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

12:20  And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.