1 The LORD had said to Abram, "Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you.2 "I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. [^1]3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." [^2]4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring "I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know what a beautiful woman you are.12 When the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me but will let you live.13 Say you are my sister, 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.15 And when Pharaoh's officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.17 But the LORD inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram's wife Sarai.18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram. "What have you done to me?" he said. "Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!"20 Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.

1 Dixit autem Dominus ad Abram : Egredere de terra tua, et de cognatione tua, et de domo patris tui, et veni in terram quam monstrabo tibi. 2 Faciamque te in gentem magnam, et benedicam tibi, et magnificabo nomen tuum, erisque benedictus. 3 Benedicam benedicentibus tibi, et maledicam maledicentibus tibi, atque in te benedicentur univers cognationes terr. 4 Egressus est itaque Abram sicut prceperat ei Dominus, et ivit cum eo Lot : septuaginta quinque annorum erat Abram cum egrederetur de Haran. 5 Tulitque Sarai uxorem suam, et Lot filium fratris sui, universamque substantiam quam possederant, et animas quas fecerant in Haran : et egressi sunt ut irent in terram Chanaan. Cumque venissent in eam, 6 pertransivit Abram terram usque ad locum Sichem, usque ad convallem illustrem : Chananus autem tunc erat in terra. 7 Apparuit autem Dominus Abram, et dixit ei : Semini tuo dabo terram hanc. Qui dificavit ibi altare Domino, qui apparuerat ei. 8 Et inde transgrediens ad montem, qui erat contra orientem Bethel, tetendit ibi tabernaculum suum, ab occidente habens Bethel, et ab oriente Hai : dificavit quoque ibi altare Domino, et invocavit nomen ejus. 9 Perrexitque Abram vadens, et ultra progrediens ad meridiem.10 Facta est autem fames in terra : descenditque Abram in gyptum, ut peregrinaretur ibi : prvaluerat enim fames in terra. 11 Cumque prope esset ut ingrederetur gyptum, dixit Sarai uxori su : Novi quod pulchra sis mulier : 12 et quod cum viderint te gyptii, dicturi sunt : Uxor ipsius est : et interficient me, et te reservabunt. 13 Dic ergo, obsecro te, quod soror mea sis : ut bene sit mihi propter te, et vivat anima mea ob gratiam tui. 14 Cum itaque ingressus esset Abram gyptum, viderunt gyptii mulierem quod esset pulchra nimis. 15 Et nuntiaverunt principes Pharaoni, et laudaverunt eam apud illum : et sublata est mulier in domum Pharaonis. 16 Abram vero bene usi sunt propter illam : fueruntque ei oves et boves et asini, et servi et famul, et asin et cameli. 17 Flagellavit autem Dominus Pharaonem plagis maximis, et domum ejus, propter Sarai uxorem Abram. 18 Vocavitque Pharao Abram, et dixit ei : Quidnam est hoc quod fecisti mihi ? quare non indicasti quod uxor tua esset ? 19 quam ob causam dixisti esse sororem tuam, ut tollerem eam mihi in uxorem ? Nunc igitur ecce conjux tua, accipe eam, et vade. 20 Prcepitque Pharao super Abram viris : et deduxerunt eum, et uxorem illius, et omnia qu habebat.