Genesis 12:9
Good News Translation
Then he moved on from place to place, going toward the southern part of Canaan.

New Revised Standard Version
And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.

Contemporary English Version
Later, Abram started out toward the Southern Desert.

New American Bible
Then Abram journeyed on by stages to the Negeb.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.

going on still.

Genesis 13:3 And he returned by the way, that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai,

Genesis 24:62 At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country:

Psalm 105:13 And they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.

Hebrews 11:13,14 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. . . .

Context
The Calling of Abram
8And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name. 9And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.
Cross References
Genesis 13:1
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him into the south.

Genesis 13:3
And he returned by the way, that he came, from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai,

Genesis 20:1
Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.

Genesis 24:62
At the same time, Isaac was walking along the way to the well which is called Of the living and the seeing: for he dwelt in the south country:

Numbers 13:17
And Moses sent them to view the land of Chanaan, and said to them: Go you up by the south side. And when you shall come to the mountains,

Deuteronomy 1:7
Turn you, and come to the mountain of the Amorrhites, and to the other places that are next to it, the plains and the hills and the vales towards the south, and by the sea shore, the land of the Chanaanites, and of Libanus, as far as the great river Euphrates.

Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the south. In a land of trouble and distress, from whence come the lioness, and the lion, the viper and the flying basilisk, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of beasts, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels to a people that shall not be able to profit them.

Genesis 12:8
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