Genesis 12:9

Abram moved on, going from place to place toward the Nagreb.

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And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

In Context

8From there he moved on to the hill at the east of Bethel and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and there too he built an altar to the Lord and prayed to him.

10There 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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Cross References

Genesis 13:1So Abram and his wife and all his possessions left Egypt and went to the Negreb and Lot went with him.

Genesis 20:1Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negreb, settling between Kadesh and Shur, and staying for a while in Gerar,

Genesis 24:62Now Isaac had come from Beer-lahai-roi, and was settled in the Negeb.

Hebrews 11:13All these died sustained by faith. They did not obtain the promised blessings, but they saw them from a distance and welcomed the sight, and they acknowledged themselves to be only foreigners and strangers on the earth.

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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