Genesis 12:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Abram and Sarai in Egypt

¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land. ¹¹ When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, ‘I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance; ¹² and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, “This is his wife”; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.