Genesis 12:7-11
Genesis 12:7
And the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.
Genesis 12:8
Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 12:9
Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.
Genesis 12:10
Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 12:11
It came about, when he was approaching Egypt, that he said to his wife Sarai, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman;