that the nation promise will be fulfilled through his nephew.1 The narrative of his sojourn there (12:10–20) has been the object of much scholarly interest. Most of the attention paid to the pericope has been taken up with comparing and contrasting it with ‘parallel’ wife-sister stories in chs. 20 and 26, the usual assumption being that ‘these three passages are three different portrayals of the same narrative’.2 If one limits one’s interests to uncovering a hypothetical evolution of a narrative