Genesis 12:9
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New International Version (©2011)
Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then Abram traveled on, continuing into the Negev.

NET Bible (©2006)
Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Abram kept moving toward the Negev.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the Negeb.

American King James Version
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

American Standard Version
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south.

Darby Bible Translation
And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.

English Revised Version
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south.

World English Bible
Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

Young's Literal Translation
And Abram journeyeth, going on and journeying towards the south.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:6-9 Abram found the country peopled by Canaanites, who were bad neighbours. He journeyed, going on still. Sometimes it is the lot of good men to be unsettled, and often to remove into various states. Believers must look on themselves as strangers and sojourners in this world, Heb 11:8,13,14. But observe how much comfort Abram had in God. When he could have little satisfaction in converse with the Canaanites whom he found there, he had abundance of pleasure in communion with that God, who brought him thither, and did not leave him. Communion with God is kept up by the word and by prayer. God reveals himself and his favours to his people by degrees; before, he had promised to show Abram this land, now, to give it to him: as grace is growing, so is comfort. It should seem, Abram understood it also as a grant of a better land, of which this was a type; for he looked for a heavenly country, Heb 11:16. As soon as Abram was got to Canaan, though he was but a stranger and sojourner there, yet he set up, and kept up, the worship of God in his family. He not only minded the ceremonial part of religion, the offering of sacrifice; but he made conscience of seeking his God, and calling on his name; that spiritual sacrifice with which God is well pleased. He preached concerning the name of the Lord; he taught his family and neighbours the knowledge of the true God, and his holy religion. The way of family worship is a good old way, no new thing, but the ancient usage of the saints. Abram was rich, and had a numerous family, was now unsettled, and in the midst of enemies; yet, wherever he pitched his tent, he built an altar: wherever we go, let us not fail to take our religion along with us.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 9. - And Abram journeyed (literally, broke up, e. g., his encampment, going on still - literally, going on and breaking up (cf. Genesis 8:3); "going and returning" - towards the south. Negleb, the dry region, from nagabh, to be dried, the southern district of Palestine (Genesis 13:3; Genesis 20:1; Genesis 24:62). The LXX. render, ἐστρατοπέδευσεν ἐν, τῇ ἐρήμῳ. . Of this section vers. 5, 6, 8a are commonly assigned to the Elohist; and 7, 8b, and 9 to the Jehovist.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

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The Calling of Abram
…7And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed will I give this land: and there built he an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him. 8And he removed from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD. 9And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

Genesis 13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
Genesis 13:3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
Genesis 20:1 Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar,
Genesis 24:62 Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
Numbers 13:17 When Moses sent them to explore Canaan, he said, "Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country.
Deuteronomy 1:7 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates.
Isaiah 30:6 A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys' backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,