Genesis 12:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he went on, journeying still to the South.

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  • Gen 13:3 : 3 And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;
  • Gen 24:62 : 62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.
  • Ps 105:13 : 13 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.
  • Heb 11:13-14 : 13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves.
  • Gen 13:1 : 1 And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

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  • Gen 13:1-3
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    1 And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

    2 Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

    3 And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

  • 10 And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

  • 1 And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

  • Gen 12:4-8
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    4 So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.

    5 And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

    6 And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

    7 And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.

    8 And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

  • 1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:

  • Gen 13:17-18
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    17 Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

    18 And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

  • 3 From there it goes south of the slope up to Akrabbim, and on to Zin, then south past Kadesh-barnea, and on by Hezron and up to Addar, turning in the direction of Karka:

  • 62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

  • 18 And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the north, and down to the Arabah;

  • 12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

  • 16 And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

  • 14 And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

  • 23 And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.

  • 31 And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

  • 10 So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.

  • 12 Then turning east from Sarid to the limit of Chisloth-tabor, it goes out to Daberath, and up to Japhia;

  • 5 And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;

  • 8 By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

  • 34 And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

  • 33 And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.

  • 9 Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

  • 12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.

  • 19 Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

  • 12 And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

  • 14 And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.