Genesis 12:9

And Abram migrated, going and migrating to the south.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

In Context

8And he ascended from thence to the mountain east of Beth El, and spread out his tabernacle, having Beth El on the west and Ai on the east; and he builded there an altar before the Lord, and prayed in the name of the Lord.

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

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Cross References

Genesis 13:1And Abram went up from Mizraim, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, unto the south.

Genesis 20:1And Abraham migrated from thence to the southern land, and dwelt between Rekam and Hagra; and he sojourned in Gerar.

Genesis 24:62And Izhak ascended in coming from the well over which the Angel of Life ( malak qayama, “the Eternal Angel”) had appeared; and he dwelt in the land of 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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