And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Parallel translations
- WEB Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.
- BSB And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.
- NKJV So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
- NASB Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.
- NLT Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.
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Quick answer
Abram continued journeying toward the South (the Negev). He keeps moving as a pilgrim through the promised land.
Overview
This brief travel note shows Abram steadily traversing the land God promised, taking it in by faith. His southward movement sets up the famine and Egypt episode that follows. The verse pictures the patriarch's ongoing pilgrimage, dwelling in the land as a stranger while trusting God's pledge.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Gen 13:3And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
- Gen 13:1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
- Gen 24:62And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.
- Ps 105:13When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
- Heb 11:13–14These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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