10. But there was a famine in Canaan, and it was so bad that Abram went farther south to Egypt, to live there for a while.
11. When he was about to cross the border into Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “You are a beautiful woman.
12. When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.
13. Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well.”
14. When he crossed the border into Egypt, the Egyptians did see that his wife was beautiful.
15. Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.
16. Because of her the king treated Abram well and gave him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.
17. But because the king had taken Sarai, the Lord sent terrible diseases on him and on the people of his palace.
18. Then the king sent for Abram and asked him, “What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?