13 (A)Please say you are my (B)sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that [a]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.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:13 Lit. my soul

13 Say you are my sister,(A) so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”

14 When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.(B) 15 And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.

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