Promises to Abram
1 Now the Gen. 15:7; Acts 7:2, 3; (Heb. 11:8)Lord had said to Abram:
"Get Gen. 13:9out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Abram in Egypt
10 Now there was Gen. 26:1a famine in the land, and Abram Ps. 105:13went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine wasGen. 43:1severe in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "Indeed I know that you areGen. 12:14; 26:7; 29:17a woman of beautiful countenance. 12 Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they Gen. 20:11; 26:7will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Gen. 20:1–18; 26:6–11Please say you are my Gen. 20:12sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you."