7. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your posterity. So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, Who had appeared to him.
8. From there he pulled up [his tent pegs] and departed 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, still going toward the South (the Negeb).
10. Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive (intense and grievous).
11. And when he was about to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, I know that you are beautiful to behold.
12. So when the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.
13. Say, I beg of you, that you are my sister, so that it may go well with me for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.
14. And when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15. The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house [harem].
16. And he treated Abram well for her sake; he acquired sheep, oxen, he-donkeys, menservants, maidservants, she-donkeys, and camels.
17. But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his household with serious plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
18. And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
19. Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her and get away [from here]!
20. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they brought him on his way with his wife and all that he had.