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He moved on from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent there, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and proclaimed[a] the name of the Lord. Abram pulled out from there and kept traveling toward the Negev.[b]

The First Trip to Egypt

10 There was a famine in the land. So Abram went down into Egypt to stay there for a while, because the famine was severe in the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:8 Or called on
  2. Genesis 12:9 The Negev is the arid region in the far south of Israel. Negev sometimes is used as a synonym for south.