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Then Abram journeyed on by stages to the Negeb.[a]

Abram and Sarai in Egypt.[b] 10 There was famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, since the famine in the land was severe.(A) 11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai: “I know that you are a beautiful woman.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:9 The Negeb: the semidesert land south of Judah.
  2. 12:10–13:1 Abraham and Sarah’s sojourn in Egypt and encounter with Pharaoh foreshadow their descendants’ experience, suggesting a divine design in which they must learn to trust. The story of Sarah, the ancestor in danger, is told again in chap. 20, and also in 26:1–11 with Rebekah instead of Sarah. Repetition of similar events is not unusual in literature that has been orally shaped.

Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.(A)

Abram in Egypt(B)

10 Now there was a famine in the land,(C) and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.(D) 11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai,(E) “I know what a beautiful woman(F) you are.

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