Genesis 12:9 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 12:9

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

KJV

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ASV

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

WEB

And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

YLT

And Abram journeyeth, going on and journeying towards the south.

DBT

And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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7 verses on the floor

Genesis 13:3
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth–el and Hai;
Numbers 13:17
And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
Genesis 24:62
And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai–roi; for he dwelt in the south country.
Genesis 13:1
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
Genesis 20:13
And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

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Observe here, (1.) Sometimes it is the lot of good men to be unsettled, and obliged often to remove their habitation. Holy David had his wanderings, his flittings, Ps. lvi. (2.) Our removes in this world are often into various conditions.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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H8761× in canon H5045112× in canon H5265146× in canon

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GEN 12:9GEN 24:62 GEN 20:1
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
GEN 12:9GEN 24:62 GEN 16:14
GEN 12:9GEN 24:62 GEN 25:11
GEN 12:9GEN 13:1 JOS 10:40
GEN 12:9GEN 13:1 GEN 12:9-20
GEN 12:9GEN 13:1 2SA 24:7
GEN 12:9GEN 13:1 1SA 27:10
GEN 12:9GEN 13:3 GEN 12:6

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