7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 From there he continued on to a mountain to the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
9 Then Abram continued his journey toward the Negev.
10 Now there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there, for the famine was severe in the land.
11 When he was getting near to Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know you are a beautiful woman.
12 Therefore, when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will then kill me, but they will let you live.
13 Say you are my sister so that I may be treated well for your sake. Then my life will be spared because of you.”