Genesis 12:9

Then Abram continued journeying, going toward the Negev.

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And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

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8From there he moved to the hill country to the east of Bethel, where he pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.

10There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down into Egypt to stay, for the famine was severe in the land.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:1So Abram went up from Egypt and went into the Negev, he, his wife, and all that he had. Lot also went with them.

Genesis 20:1Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He was a foreigner living in Gerar.

Genesis 24:62Now Isaac was living in the Negev, and had just returned from Beer Lahai Roi.

Hebrews 11:13It was in faith that all these died without receiving the promises. Instead, after seeing and greeting them from far off, they admitted that they were foreigners and exiles on 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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