Genesis 12:10 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

There was a famine in the land - Of Canaan. This is the first famine on record, and it prevailed in the most fertile land then under the sun; and why? God made it desolate for the wickedness of those who dwelt in it. Went down into Egypt - He felt himself a stranger and a pilgrim, and by his unsettled state was kept in mind of the city that hath foundations that are permanent and stable, whose builder is the living God. See Heb 11:8, Heb 11:9.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

And there was a famine in the land - Not only to punish the iniquity of the Canaanites, but to exercise the faith of Abram. Now he was tried whether he could trust the God that brought him to Canaan, to maintain him there, and rejoice in him as the God of his salvation, when the fig-tree did not blossom.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֥י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
רָעָ֖ב	ra.'Av	a famine	H7458 →
בָּאָ֑רֶץ	ba.'A.retz	in the land	H776 →
וַיֵּ֨רֶד	vai.Ye.red	and he went down	H3381 →
אַבְרָ֤ם	'av.Ram	Abram	H87 →
מִצְרַ֙יְמָה֙	mitz.Ray.mah	Egypt towards	H4714 →
לָג֣וּר	la.Gur	to sojourn	H1481 →
שָׁ֔ם	Sham	there	H8033 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
כָבֵ֥ד	kha.Ved	[was] heavy	H3515 →
הָרָעָ֖ב	ha.ra.'Av	the famine	H7458 →
בָּאָֽרֶץ׃	ba.'A.retz	in the land	H776 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ruth 1:1
In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land…
leads to
- Genesis 26:1
  Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
- Ezekiel 14:13
  “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to…
- Joel 1:16–20
  Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- Leviticus 26:19
  I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
Through
Acts 7:11
Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
leads to
- Genesis 41:54–57
  the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 42:5
  So the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to the land of Canaan.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Psalms 107:34
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
leads to
- Genesis 14:3
  The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- Genesis 13:10
  And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…