6. Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, as far as Moreh’s big tree. (The Canaanites were in the land then.)
7. Then Adonai appeared to Abram, and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” So there he built an altar to Adonai, who had appeared to him.
8. From there he moved to the mountain to the east of Beth-El and erected his tent (with Beth-El to the west and Ai to the east). There he built an altar to Adonai and called on the Name of Adonai.
9. So Abram kept on journeying southward.
10. Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live as an outsider there, because the famine was severe in the land.
11. Just as he was about to enter Egypt he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, please, I know that you are an attractive woman.
12. So when the Egyptians see you they’ll say, ‘This is his wife.’ And they’ll kill me; but you, they’ll let live.
13. Please say that you are my sister, so that I’ll be treated well for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.”
14. When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians did see that the woman was very beautiful.
15. Indeed, Pharaoh’s officials saw her and they raved about her to Pharaoh. Then the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.