4So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.12:4 Gn 11:27,31

5He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

6Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem,12:6 Gn 35:4; Dt 11:30; Heb 11:9 at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring12:7 Lit seed12:7 Gn 13:15; Ex 33:1; Ps 105:9–12; Ac 7:5; Gl 3:16 I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

8From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the Lord there, and he called on the name of the Lord.12:8 Gn 4:26; 21:33

9Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.

17But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife, Sarai.12:17 Gn 20:18; 1Ch 16:21; Ps 105:14

18So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

19Why did you say, ‘She’s my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

20Then Pharaoh gave his men orders about him, and they sent him away with his wife and all he had.