Pharaoh TOOK Sarai for his wife

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Did Pharaoh have sexual intercourse with Sarai?

ESV, Genesis 12:

5a And Abram took [H3947] Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan.

H3947 was a common word.
Strong's Hebrew: 3947. לָקַח (laqach) — 965 Occurrences

There was no sexual intercourse connotation here.

Later in Canaan:

10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance, 12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.”

Abram instructed his wife to tell a half-truth to save his life.

14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken [H3947] into Pharaoh’s house.

Pharaoh expected to have sexual intercourse with Sarai. Abram jeopardized his wife's honor, but Abram was rewarded:

16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Then God intervened.

17 But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took [H3947] her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” 20 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.

Did Pharaoh have sexual intercourse with Sarai?

The language did not assert that one way or another. From the context, I think God intervened before the intercourse happened to preserve Sarai's sexual purity. That was the point of the intervention.

Was Abram willing to risk Pharaoh having sexual intercourse with Sarai?

I think so in order to save his own life. God did not reprimand Abram for this. In fact, a similar incident happened again two decades later with Abimelech (Gen 20:2).