Verse 10

Genesis 12:10

World Messianic Bible

10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וַ/יְהִ֥י רָעָ֖ב בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ וַ/יֵּ֨רֶד אַבְרָ֤ם מִצְרַ֨יְמָ/ה֙ לָ/ג֣וּר שָׁ֔ם כִּֽי כָבֵ֥ד הָ/רָעָ֖ב בָּ/אָֽרֶץ

English Translation

And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was very severe in the land.

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Chapter 12 Context

1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go t... Focus ↗

2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing... Focus ↗

3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treates you with contempt. All the famili... Focus ↗

4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he d... Focus ↗

5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and... Focus ↗

6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites... Focus ↗

7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar the... Focus ↗

8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel o... Focus ↗

9 Abram traveled, still going on toward the South. Focus ↗

10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the fam...

11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a bea... Focus ↗

12 It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill m... Focus ↗

13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may l... Focus ↗

14 When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. Focus ↗

15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s h... Focus ↗

16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female ser... Focus ↗

17 Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. Focus ↗

18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that s... Focus ↗

19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife,... Focus ↗

20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had. Focus ↗

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