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Abram in Egypt
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.
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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.
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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.
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So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.
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Abram Inherits Canaan
Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South.
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And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.
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On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—
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Hagar and Ishmael
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.
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Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.
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And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing.
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He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
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The Families of Ishmael and Isaac
Now this is the genealogy of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
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(They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria.) He died in the presence of all his brethren.
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Then the Lord appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you.
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And they sat down to eat a meal. Then they lifted their eyes and looked, and there was a company of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead with their camels, bearing spices, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry them down to Egypt.
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Then Midianite traders passed by; so the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.
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Now the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
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Joseph a Slave in Egypt
Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. And Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there.
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The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
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So it was, from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had in the house and in the field.
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The Prisoners’ Dreams
It came to pass after these things that the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
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Then the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream, both of them, each man’s dream in one night and each man’s dream with its own interpretation.
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Now it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.
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Then behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and gaunt, such ugliness as I have never seen in all the land of Egypt.
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Indeed seven years of great plenty will come throughout all the land of Egypt;
