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Genesis 12:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Abram traveled, still going on toward the South. "

Genesis 12:9

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7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

8 He left from there to go 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 the LORD and called on the LORD’s name.

9 Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.

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.

11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

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"He went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, to Beth Maacah, and all the Berites. They were gathered together, and went also after him."

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Genesis 12:1

"Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you."

Genesis 12:2

"I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing."

Genesis 12:3

"I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”"

Genesis 12:4

"So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran."

Genesis 12:5

"Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan."

Genesis 12:6

"Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land."

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