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Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
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There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was sore in the land.
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It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on.
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It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, `This is his wife.` They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
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Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
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It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
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The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh`s house.
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He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
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Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram`s wife.
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Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn`t you tell me that she was your wife?
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Why did you say, `She is my sister,` so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
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Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.