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.
12 When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.
13 Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well.”