5 Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the wealth and all the slaves they had acquired in Haran, and they started out for the land of Canaan.When they arrived in Canaan,
6 Abram travelled through the land until he came to the sacred tree of Moreh, the holy place at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were still living in the land.)
7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants.” Then Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 After that, he moved on south to the hill country east of the city of Bethel and set up his camp between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There also he built an altar and worshipped the Lord.
9 Then he moved on from place to place, going towards the southern part of Canaan.
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.
11 When he was about to cross the border into Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “You are a beautiful woman.