1 En die HERE het aan Abram gesê: Gaan jy uit jou land en uit jou familie en uit jou vader se huis, na die land wat Ek jou sal wys.

2 En Ek sal jou 'n groot nasie maak en jou seën en jou naam so groot maak, dat jy 'n seën sal wees.

3 En Ek sal seën diegene wat jou seën, en hom vervloek wat jou vervloek; en in jou sal al die geslagte van die aarde geseënword.

4 Toe het Abram weggetrek soos die HERE hom gesê het, en Lot het saam met hom getrek. En Abram was vyf en sewentig jaar oud by sy vertrek uit Haran.

5 En Abram het Sarai, sy vrou, en Lot, sy broerskind, geneem en al hulle besittings wat hulle bymekaargemaak en die slawe wat hulle in Haran verwerf het, en hulle het uitgetrek om na die land Kana„n te gaan en in die land Kanaän gekom.

6 En Abram het deur die land getrek na die plek Sigem, tot by die terpentynboom More. Die Kanaäniete was toe in die land.

7 Daarop verskyn die HERE aan Abram en sê: Aan jou nageslag sal Ek hierdie land gee. Toe bou hy daar 'n altaar vir die HERE wat aan hom verskyn het.

8 En daarvandaan het hy verder versit na die gebergte oos van Bet-el en sy tent opgeslaan tussen Bet-el aan die weste-- en Ai aan die oostekant, en daar vir die HERE 'n altaar gebou en die Naam van die HERE aangeroep.

9 Daarna het Abram al verder na die Suidland weggetrek.

10 En daar was hongersnood in die land, sodat Abram na Egipte afgetrek het om daar as vreemdeling te vertoef; want die hongersnood was swaar in die land.

11 En toe hy op die punt staan om Egipte in te trek, het hy met sy vrou Sarai gespreek: Kyk, ek weet dat jy 'n vrou is mooi van aansien.

12 As die Egiptenaars jou nou sien, sal hulle sê: Dit is sy vrou en hulle sal my doodmaak en jou laat lewe.

13 Sê tog jy is my suster, dat dit met my goed kan gaan ter wille van jou en ek om jou ontwil in die lewe kan bly.

14 Toe Abram dan in Egipte gekom het, sien die Egiptenaars dat die vrou baie mooi was.

15 Ook het die vorste van Farao haar gesien en haar by Farao geprys. En die vrou is na die paleis van Farao geneem.

16 En hy het goed gedoen aan Abram om haar ontwil, sodat hy kleinvee en beeste en esels, slawe en slavinne, eselinne en kamele in besit gekry het.

17 Maar die HERE het Farao en sy huis met groot plae besoek ter wille van Sarai, die vrou van Abram.

18 Daarop laat Farao Abram roep en hy sê: Wat het jy my nou aangedoen? Waarom het jy my nie te kenne gegee dat sy jou vrou is nie?

19 Waarom het jy gesê: Sy is my suster -- sodat ek haar vir my as vrou geneem het? Daar is jou vrou dan nou; neem haar en gaan weg.

20 En Farao het aan enkele manne aangaande hom bevel gegee, en hulle het hom weggebring met sy vrou en sy hele besitting.

1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

3 To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

4 So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

5 And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

6 And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

7 And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.

8 And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

9 And he went on, journeying still to the South.

10 And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

11 Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

12 And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

13 Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account.

14 And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

15 And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.

16 And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

17 And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

18 Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

19 Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.

20 And Pharaoh gave orders to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and all he had.