Genesis 12:10
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
KJV
Facta est autem fames in terra : descenditque Abram in Ægyptum, ut peregrinaretur ibi : prævaluerat enim fames in terra.
Vulgate
Καὶ ἐγένετο λιμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς· καὶ κατέβη Ἀβρὰμ εἰς Αἴγυπτον παροικῆσαι ἐκεῖ, ὅτι ἐνίσχυσεν ὁ λιμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.
LXX
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.
ASV
וַ/יְהִ֥י רָעָ֖ב בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ וַ/יֵּ֨רֶד אַבְרָ֤ם מִצְרַ֨יְמָ/ה֙ לָ/ג֣וּר שָׁ֔ם כִּֽי כָבֵ֥ד הָ/רָעָ֖ב בָּ/אָֽרֶץ
Hebrew
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10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country. The call of Abram is the beginning of the visible Church as a separated people. God's promise that in Abram all families of the earth would be blessed is the great gospel promise, which finds its fulfillment in Christ. Abraham's obedience, leaving his country by faith, is commended by the apostle as the pattern of a…
Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 8:1 — Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine;
- Gen 26:1 — And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
- Gen 26:1 — And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
- Gen 42:5 — And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- Gen 43:1 — And the famine was sore in the land.
- Gen 43:1 — And the famine was sore in the land.
- Judg 11:2 — And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
- Ruth 1:1 — Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two so