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Genesis 12:9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Genesis 12:9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 Then Abram journeyed on by stages to the Negeb.[a]
Abram and Sarai in Egypt.[b]
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- 12:9 The Negeb: the semidesert land south of Judah.
- 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.
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