12 1 Abram by God’s commandment goeth to Canaan. 3 Christ is promised. 7 Abram buildeth Altars for exercise and declaration of his faith among the infidels. 10 Because of the dearth he goeth into Egypt. 15 Pharaoh taketh his wife, and is punished.

¹ For the Lord had said unto Abram, ^(A)[a]Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house unto ^[b]the land that I will show thee.

² And I will make of thee a great nation, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a ^[c]blessing.

³ I will also bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

⁴ So Abram departed, even as the Lord spake unto him, and Lot went with him, (and Abram was seventy and five years old, when he departed out of Haran)

⁵ Then Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they possessed, and the ^[d]souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan, and to the land of Canaan they came.

⁶ ¶ So Abram ^[e]passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, and unto the ^[f]plain of Moreh (and the ^[g]Canaanite was then in the land)

⁷ And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there built he ^[h]an altar unto the Lord, which appeared unto him.

⁸ Afterward removing ^[i]thence unto a mountain Eastward from Bethel, he pitched his tent having Bethel on the West side, and Ai on the East, and there he built an ^[j]altar unto the Lord, and called on the Name of the Lord.

^9 [k]Again Abram went forth going and journeying toward the South.

¹⁰ ¶ Then there came a ^[l]famine in the land: therefore Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there: for there was a great famine in the land.

¹¹ And when he drew near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

¹² Therefore it will come to pass that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife: so will they kill me, but they will keep thee alive.

¹³ Say, I pray thee, that thou art my ^[m]sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my ^[n]life may be preserved by thee.

¹⁴ ¶ Now when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman: for she was very fair.

¹⁵ And the Princes of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her unto Pharaoh: so the woman was ^[o]taken into Pharaoh’s house:

¹⁶ Who entreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheep, and beeves, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

¹⁷ But the Lord ^[p]plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

¹⁸ Then Pharaoh called Abram, and said, Why hast thou done this unto me? Wherefore diddest thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?

¹⁹ Why saidest thou, She is my sister, that I should take her to be my wife? Now therefore behold thy wife, take her and go thy way.

²⁰ And Pharaoh gave men ^[q]commandment concerning him: and they conveyed him forth and his wife, and all that he had.