7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord.
9 Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.
10 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.
11 As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.
12 When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive.
13 So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”