10:1 After Abimelech’s death, ¹  Tola son of Puah, grandson ²  of Dodo, from the tribe of Issachar, ³  rose up to deliver Israel. He lived in Shamir in the Ephraimite hill country. 10:2 He led ⁴  Israel for twenty-three years, then died and was buried in Shamir.

10:3 Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years. 10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair ⁵  – they are in the land of Gilead. ⁶  10:5 Jair died and was buried in Kamon.

12:8 Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel ¹  and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord. ²  12:9 Abram continually journeyed by stages ³  down to the Negev. ⁴ 

12:10 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt ⁵  to stay for a while ⁶  because the famine was severe. ⁷  12:11 As he approached ⁸  Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, ⁹  I know that you are a beautiful woman. ¹⁰  12:12 When the Egyptians see you they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will keep you alive. ¹¹  12:13 So tell them ¹²  you are my sister ¹³  so that it may go well ¹⁴  for me because of you and my life will be spared ¹⁵  on account of you.”

12:14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 12:15 When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. So Abram’s wife ¹⁶  was taken ¹⁷  into the household of Pharaoh, ¹⁸