[12:10] 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.
[12:11] When he was about to cross the border into Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “You are a beautiful woman.
[12:12] When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.
[12:13] Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well.”
[12:14] When he crossed the border into Egypt, the Egyptians did see that his wife was beautiful.
[12:15] Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.
[12:16] Because of her the king treated Abram well and gave him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.
[12:17] But because the king had taken Sarai, the Lord sent terrible diseases on him and on the people of his palace.
[12:18] 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?
[12:19] Why did you say that she was your sister, and let me take her as my wife? Here is your wife; take her and get out!”
[12:20] The king gave orders to his men, so they took Abram and put him out of the country, together with his wife and everything he owned.