Genesis 12:10

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

In Context

9And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

11And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

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Cross References

Genesis 41:56And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 46:3And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

Ruth 1:1And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

1 Kings 17:1And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

2 Kings 6:25And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass`s head was sold for fourscore [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove`s dung for five [pieces] of silver.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:7-10

Abram's Devotion. ( b. c. 1921.) 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord , and called upon the… Read the whole commentary →

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