Genesis 12:5-13:4

New American Standard Bible

⁵ Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their ^(A)possessions which they had accumulated, and ^(B)the ^[a]people which they had acquired in Haran, and they ^[b]set out for the land of Canaan; ^(C)so they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ Abram passed through the land as far as the site of ^(D)Shechem, to the ^[c]oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time. ⁷ And the Lord ^(E)appeared to Abram and said, “^(F)To your ^[d]descendants I will give this land.” So he built ^(G)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 ^(H)Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and ^(I)called upon the name of the Lord. ⁹ Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward ^(J)the ^[e]Negev.

¹⁰ Now there was ^(K)a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was ^(L)severe in the land. ¹¹ It came about, when he ^[f]was approaching Egypt, that he said to his wife Sarai, “See now, I know that you are a ^[g](M)beautiful woman; ^12 (N)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 ^(O)my sister so that it may go well for me because of you, and that ^[h](P)I may live on account of you.” ¹⁴ Now it came about, when Abram entered Egypt, that the Egyptians ^[i]saw that the woman was very beautiful. ¹⁵ Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and ^(Q)the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. ¹⁶ Therefore ^(R)he treated Abram well for her sake; and ^[j](S)he gave him sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

¹⁷ But the Lord ^(T)struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. ¹⁸ Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “^(U)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 for myself as a wife? Now then, ^[k]here is your wife, take her and go!” ²⁰ And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they ^[l]escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.

Abram and Lot

13 So Abram went up from Egypt to ^(V)the ^[m]Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.

² Now Abram was ^(W)very rich in livestock, silver, and gold. ³ And he went ^[n]on his journeys from the ^[o]Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, ^(X)between Bethel and Ai, ⁴ to the place of the ^(Y)altar which he had made there previously; and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.