Genesis 12:9

And than Abram departed and toke his iourney southwarde

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

In Context

8Then departed he thence vnto a mountayne that lyeth on the east syde of BETHEL and pytched hys tente: BETHEL beynge on the west syde and Ay on the east: And he buylded there an aulter vnto the LORde and called on the name of ye LORde.

10After thys there came a derth in the lande. And Abram went doune in to Egipte to soiourne there for the derth was sore in the lande.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:1Than Abram departed out of Egipte both he and his wyfe and all that he had and Lot wyth hym vnto the south.

Genesis 20:1And Abraham departed thence towarde the southcontre and dwelled betwene Cades and Sur ad sogeorned in Gerar.

Genesis 24:62And Isaac was a comige from the well of ye lyvynge and seynge for he dwelt in the south cotre

Hebrews 11:13And they all dyed in fayth and receaved not the promyses: but sawe them a farre of and beleved them and saluted them: and confessed that they were straungers and pilgrems on the erthe.

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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