Abram and Sarai Go to Egypt

12:10-20

10 Then there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there because the famine was heavy in the land. 11 And it happened that as he was about to enter Egypt, then he said to Sarai his wife, “Behold please, I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance. 12 So it will happen when the Egyptians see you, then they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ and they will kill me but let you live. 13 Please say that you are my sister so that it will go well for me for your sake and my life will live because of you.”

14 Then it happened, when Abram came into Egypt, then the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. 15 And the officials of Pharaoh saw her, so they praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16 Then he treated Abram well for her sake, so that he had flocks and herds and male donkeys and male slaves and female slaves and female donkeys and camels.

17 But Yahweh struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues on account of Sarai the wife of Abram. 18 So Pharaoh called for Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to me as a wife? Now then, behold your wife. Take her and go!” 20 Then Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away and his wife and everything that belonged to him.