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Ch. XIII. Baithel on the west and Aggai on the east, and built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord. And Abram removed and proceeding forward encamped in the wilderness. And there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land. And when Abram was near entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sara, I know that because thou art a beautiful woman, it will therefore come to pass that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife, and they will kill me; but thee they will save alive. Say thou therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my life will be preserved for thy sake. So when Abram came into Egypt the Egyptians beheld his wife, for she was very beautiful; and when the princes of Pharaoh saw her they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was brought to Pharaoh's house. And they treated Abram well for her sake, though he had sheep and exen and asses and men servants and maid servants and mules and camels. But God visited Pharaoh and his family with great and grievous plagues because of Sara the wife of Abram. And Pharaoh called Abram and said, Why has thou acted thus with me and didst not tell me that she is thy wife? Why didst thou say, She is my sister? I indeed took her to be my wife, but now there is thy wife before thee. Take her and begone. And Pharaoh gave strict orders to men touching Abram, to convoy away him and his wife and all that he had. So Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all his substance, and Lot with him, into the wilderness.

Now Abram was very rich in cattle and in silver and gold, therefore he proceeded on to the place form which he had come intot he wilderness, even to Baithel to the place where his tent formerly was, between Baithel and Aggai, to the place of the altar which he had there built at the first, and there Abram invoked the name of the Lord.

Now Lot who accompanied Abram had flocks and herds and tents, so that the land would not admit of their living together. Because their substance was great and the land did not admit of their living together, and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of