Genesis 12:10
There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there; because the famine was severe in the land.
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In Context
9Abram moved on, going from place to place toward the Nagreb.
11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “You are a beautiful woman;
Cross References
Genesis 41:56So when the famine was universal throughout the earth, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold food to the Egyptians: but the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 42:5So the sons of Jacob went among others to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 46:3Then God said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
Ruth 1:1In the time when the judges ruled, there was once a famine in the land. A man from Bethlehem in Judah took his wife and two sons to live in the territory of Moab.
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 →