1- Now the LORD had said unto Abram, “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2- And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing
3- And I will bless them that bless thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
4- So Abram departed, as the LORD spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
5- And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
6- And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, and unto the plain of Moreh. (And the 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 builded he an altar unto the LORD, Who appeared unto him.
8- And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
Abram showed respect to God by building Him altars.
9- And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
10- And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
11- And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, “Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
Undoubtedly, Sarai was pretty.
12- Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, ‘This is his wife:’ and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
13- Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.”
14- And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was fair.
15- The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
16- And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
17- And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
God is intervening to protect the seed that the Messiah would come through.
18- And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, “What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
19- Why saidst thou, ‘She is my sister?’ so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.”
20- And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
Continue to Genesis Chapter 13