Adonoy said to Avram, Go from your land, from your birthplace, and from your father’s house, [and go] to the land that I will show you.

I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you and make your name great; and you will be a blessing [and you will be blessed].

I will bless those who bless you, and he who curses you, I will curse; and through you [and because of you], will be blessed all the families of the earth.

Avram went as Adonoy had told him, and Lot went with him. Avram was seventy-five years old when he left Charan.

Avram took his wife Sarai, Lot, his brother’s son, all their possessions they had acquired, and the souls [people] that they had made [converted] in Charan, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. They came to the land of Canaan.

Avram passed [traveled] through the land until the place of Shechem, until the Plain of Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land.

Adonoy appeared [became revealed] to Avram and said: To your descendants I will give this land. There he built an altar to [before] Adonoy Who had appeared [been revealed] to him.

From there he moved [ascended] to the mountain that was east of Beis-Eil and set up his tent. Beis-Eil was to the west and Ai was to the east. There he built an altar to [before] Adonoy, and he proclaimed the Name, [and he prayed in the Name,] Adonoy.

Avram journeyed, traveling steadily southward.

There was a famine in the land. Avram went down to Egypt to live there temporarily, for the famine was severe in the land.

As he came near and was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, Behold, I now realize that you are a woman of beautiful appearance.

It will happen when the Egyptians see you that they will say: This is his wife. They will kill me and let you live.

Please [Now] say [therefore] that you are my sister, so that it will go well with me for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you [through your words].

And it was when Avram was entering Egypt, that the Egyptians beheld the woman, because she was very beautiful.

Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh. The woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house.

He treated Avram well for her sake. He thus acquired sheep, oxen, donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys and camels.

Adonoy afflicted Pharaoh with severe plagues [brought severe plagues upon Pharaoh], and also his household, because of Sarai, Avram’s wife.

Pharaoh summoned Avram and said: What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she is your wife?

Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I should take her to myself for a wife? Now here is your wife, take [her] and go.

Pharaoh assigned men to him and they escorted him and his wife and all that was his.