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Genesis 12:10
“There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.”
Genesis 12:10 in the King James Version
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.Read Genesis 12:10 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Genesis 12
He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.
There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
Cross references for Genesis 12:10
- Genesis 43:1
The famine was severe in the land.
- Genesis 26:1-3
There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell y...
- Acts 7:11
Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
- Psalms 107:34
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
- 1 Kings 17:1-18
Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." The word of Yahweh came to him, sayin...
- Genesis 42:5
The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- 2 Kings 7:1-8
Elisha said, "Hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'" Then the captain on whose hand the king...
- Genesis 47:13
There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
- 2 Kings 6:25
There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
- John 16:33
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.
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