Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Genesis 12
⁶ Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.
⁷ Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
⁸ And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
⁹ So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land.
¹¹ And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance.
¹² Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ’This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.
¹³ Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you."
¹⁴ So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.
¹⁵ The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house.
¹⁶ He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.