Genesis 12:10-20 ▼

10 And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goes down toward Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [is] grievous in the land;

11 and it comes to pass as he has drawn near to enter Egypt, that he says to his wife Sarai, “Now behold, I have known that you [are] a woman of beautiful appearance;

12 and it has come to pass that the Egyptians see you, and they have said, This [is] his wife; and they have slain me, and you they keep alive:

13 please say you [are] my sister, so that it is well with me because of you, and my soul has lived for your sake.”

14 And it comes to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceedingly beautiful;

15 and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her to Pharaoh, and the woman is taken [to] Pharaoh’s house;

16 and to Abram he has done good because of her, and he has sheep and oxen, and male donkeys, and menservants, and handmaids, and female donkeys, and camels.

17 And YHWH plagues Pharaoh and his house—great plagues—for the matter of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

18 And Pharaoh calls for Abram and says, “What [is] this you have done to me? Why have you not declared to me that she [is] your wife?

19 Why have you said, She [is] my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? And now, behold, your wife, take and go.”

20 And Pharaoh charges men concerning him, and they send him away, and his wife, and all that he has.