Genesis 12:9

9 Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

Genesis 12:9 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 12:9

And Abram journeyed
He did not stay long in the mountain between Bethel and Hai, but moved from thence, and kept on journeying in the land of Canaan:

going on still toward the south;
the southern part of the land of Canaan, which lay nearest Egypt, into which he is said to go next, the occasion of which follows.

Genesis 12:9 In-Context

7 Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.

9 Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was sore in the land.

11 It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on.