When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw how very beautiful the woman was. Pharaoh\u2019s courtiers saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh\u2019s palace. And because of her, it went well with Abram; he acquired sheep, oxen, asses, male and female slaves, she-asses, and camels.
\nBut the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his household with mighty plagues on account of Sarai, the wife of Abram. Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me! Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now, here is your wife; take her and begone!” And Pharaoh put men in charge of him, and they sent him off with his wife and all that he possessed.
\nFrom Egypt, Abram went up into the Negeb, with his wife and all that he possessed, together with Lot. Now Abram was very rich in cattle, silver, and gold. And he proceeded by stages from the Negeb as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been formerly, between Bethel and Ai, the site of the altar that he had built there at first; and there Abram invoked the Lord by name.
\nFrom Parshat Lekh Lekhah. From THE TANAKH: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Copyright 1985 by the Jewish Publication Society. Used by permission.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw how very beautiful the woman was. Pharaoh\u2019s courtiers saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh\u2019s palace. And because of her, it went well with Abram; he acquired sheep, oxen, asses, male and female slaves, she-asses, and camels. But the Lord afflicted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-torah-reading"],"yoast_head":"\n