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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Genesis 12
⁷ The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
⁸ Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with 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.
⁹ Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.
¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
¹¹ It came about when he came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman;
¹² and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ’This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.
¹³ Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may live on account of you."
¹⁴ It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
¹⁵ Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
¹⁶ Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.
¹⁷ But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.