[:en]God said ti Abram: “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (vs. 1-3)
So Abram left at age 75. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired. They set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there. (vs. 4)
There was a famine in the land and Abram went to Egypt to live there. In order to save his life, Abram told his wife to say that she was her sister in case the Egyptians would ask her. When Pharaoh’s official saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels. (v. 17-16)
But the Lord inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife Sarai. So Pharaoh summoned Abram and questioned him why he lied to him. He gave orders to sent him and his wife on his way. (vs. 17-20)[:]