Genesis 12:9

And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

In Context

8And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Bethel, and there he pitched his tent in Bethel near the sea, and Ai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.

10And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the wilderness.

Genesis 20:1And Abraham removed thence to the southern country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

Genesis 24:62And Isaac went through the wilderness to the well of the vision, and he dwelt in the land toward the south.

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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