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Abram and Sarai
There was a severe famine in the land of Canaan, so that Abram and
Lot and their households, travelled south to Egypt. En route, Abram
told his wife Sarai, to say that she was his sister, so that the
Egyptians would not kill him. (Genesis 12:10–13) When they entered
Egypt, the princes of Pharaoh praised Sarai's beauty to the Pharaoh,
and she was taken into his palace, and Abram was given provisions:
"oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she
asses, and camels." However, God afflicted the Pharaoh and his
household with great plagues, (Genesis 12:14–17) and after
discovering that Sarai was really Abram's wife, the Pharaoh wanted
nothing to do with them. He demanded that he and his household leave
immediately, along with all their goods. (Genesis 12:18–20)
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham
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