Genesis 12:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁹ And Abram journeyed on by stages towards the Negeb.

Abram and Sarai in Egypt

¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land. ¹¹ When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, ‘I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance;