World English Bible
Genesis 12:9
“Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.”
Genesis 12:9 in the King James Version
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.Read Genesis 12:9 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Genesis 12
Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
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.
Cross references for Genesis 12:9
- Genesis 13:3
He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
- Genesis 13:1
Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
- Genesis 24:62
Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.
- Hebrews 11:13-14
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things make it clear that they are ...
- Psalms 105:13
They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
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