[12:10] Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
[12:11] When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
[12:12] and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
[12:13] Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.”
[12:14] When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
[12:15] And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
[12:16] And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
[12:17] But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
[12:18] So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
[12:19] Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.”
[12:20] And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.