Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. New Living Translation At that time a severe famine struck the land of Canaan, forcing Abram to go down to Egypt, where he lived as a foreigner. English Standard Version Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. Berean Standard Bible Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. King James Bible And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. New King James Version Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land. New American Standard Bible Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land. NASB 1995 Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. NASB 1977 Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. Legacy Standard Bible Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land. Amplified Bible Now there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive and severe. Christian Standard Bible There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a while because the famine in the land was severe. Holman Christian Standard Bible There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine in the land was severe. American Standard Version And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. English Revised Version And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. GOD'S WORD® Translation There was a famine in the land. Abram went to Egypt to stay awhile because the famine was severe. Good News Translation But there was a famine in Canaan, and it was so bad that Abram went farther south to Egypt, to live there for a while. International Standard Version There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because the famine was so severe. Majority Standard Bible Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. NET Bible There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe. New Heart English Bible There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine was severe in the land. Webster's Bible Translation And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to dwell there; for the famine was grievous in the land. World English Bible 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd there is a famine in the land, and Abram goes down toward Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [is] grievous in the land; Young's Literal Translation And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goeth down towards Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine is grievous in the land; Smith's Literal Translation And there shall be a famine in the land; and Abram will go down to Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was strong in the land. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd there came a famine in the country; and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land. Catholic Public Domain Version But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land. New American Bible There was famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, since the famine in the land was severe. New Revised Standard Version Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleNow there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was severe in the land. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And there was a famine in the land and Abram came down to Egypt to dwell there because the famine was very severe in the land. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. Brenton Septuagint Translation And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Abram and Sarai in Egypt10Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. 11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,… Cross References Genesis 26:1 Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar. Genesis 41:54-57 the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt. / When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.” / When the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. ... Ruth 1:1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab. 2 Kings 8:1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed that a seven-year famine will come to the land.” Acts 7:11 Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food. Psalm 105:16 He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food. Isaiah 51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him. Hebrews 11:8-9 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going. / By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. Hebrews 11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son, Matthew 2:13-15 When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.” / So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt, / where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.” Acts 7:2-4 And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, / and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’ / So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living. Exodus 1:10-11 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” / So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. Exodus 12:10 Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over. Deuteronomy 26:5 and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous. Nehemiah 9:7 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham. Treasury of Scripture And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. A. Genesis 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. Genesis 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. Genesis 43:1 And the famine was sore in the land. went. Genesis 26:2,3 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: … Genesis 43:1 And the famine was sore in the land. Genesis 46:3,4 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: … Jump to Previous Abram Dwell Egypt Famine Food Foreigner Grievous Live Severe Sojourn Sore TowardsJump to Next Abram Dwell Egypt Famine Food Foreigner Grievous Live Severe Sojourn Sore TowardsGenesis 12 1. God calls Abram, and blesses him with a promise of Christ.4. He departs with Lot from Haran, and comes to Canaan. 6. He journeys through Canaan, 7. which is promised to him in a vision. 10. He is driven by famine into Egypt. 11. Fear makes him feign his wife to be his sister. 14. Pharaoh, having taken her from him, is compelled to restore her. 18. Pharaoh reproves Abram, whom he dismisses. Now there was a famine in the land The phrase "famine in the land" introduces a significant trial in Abram's journey. In Hebrew, the word for famine is "רָעָב" (ra'av), which indicates a severe scarcity of food. Famines were not uncommon in the ancient Near East and often prompted migrations. This famine serves as a test of Abram's faith, as he had just entered the land promised by God. Historically, famines were often seen as divine judgments or tests, and this context sets the stage for Abram's reliance on God's promises despite immediate hardships. and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe (10) There was a famine in the land.--This famine must have happened within a few years after Abram reached Canaan; for he was seventy-five years of age on leaving Haran, and as Ishmael, his son by an Egyptian slave-woman, was thirteen years old when Abram was ninety-nine, only about eight years are left for the events recorded in Genesis 12-16. As rain falls in Palestine only at two periods of the year, the failure of either of these seasons would be immediately felt, especially in a dry region like the Negeb, and at a time when, with no means of bringing food from a distance, men had to depend upon the annual products of the land. As Egypt is watered by the flooding of the Nile, caused by the heavy rains which fall in Abyssinia, it probably had not suffered from what was a mere local failure in South Palestine; and Abram, already far on his way to Egypt, was forced by the necessity of providing fodder for his cattle to run the risk of proceeding thither. In Canaan he had found a thinly scattered Canaanite population, for whom probably he would have been a match in war; in Egypt he would find a powerful empire, and would be at the mercy of its rulers. It is a proof of Abram's faith that in this necessity he neither retraced his steps (Hebrews 11:15), nor sought a new home. For he went to Egypt with no intention of settling, but only "to sojourn there," to remain there for a brief period, after which with returning rains he would go back to Canaan. Verse 10. - And there was a famine. רָעָב, from a root signifying to hunger, the primary. idea appearing to lie in that of an ample, i.e. empty, stomach (Gesenius, Furst). The term is used of individuals, men or animal (Psalm 34:11; Psalm 50:12); or of regions (Psalm 41:55). In the land. Of Canaan, which, though naturally fertile, was, on account of its imperfect cultivation, subject to visitations of dearth (cf. Genesis 26:1; Genesis 41:56), especially in dry seasons, when the November and December rains, on which Palestine depended, either failed or were scanty. The occurrence of this famine just at the time of Abram's entering the land was an additional trial to his faith. And Abram went down to Egypt. Mizraim (vide Genesis 10:6) was lower than Palestine, and celebrated then, as later, as a rich and fruitful country, though sometimes even Egypt suffered from a scarcity of corn, owing to a failure in the annual inundation of the Nile. Eichhorn notes it as an authentication of this portion of the Abrahamic history that the patriarch proposed to take himself and his household to Egypt, since at that time no corn trade existed between the two countries such as prevailed in the days of Jacob (vide Havernick's Introduction, § 18). The writer to the Hebrews remarks it as an instance of the patriarch's faith that he did not return to either Haran or Ur (Hebrews 11:15, 16). To sojourn there. To tarry as a stranger, but not to dwell. Whether this journey was undertaken with the Divine sanction and ought to be regarded as an act of faith, or in obedience to his own fears and should be reckoned as a sign of unbelief, does not appear. Whichever way the patriarch elected to act in his perplexity, to leave Canaan or reside in it, there was clearly a strain intended to be put upon his faith. For the famine was grievous (literally, heavy) in the land.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Now there wasוַיְהִ֥י (way·hî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be a famine רָעָ֖ב (rā·‘āḇ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7458: Famine, hunger in the land. בָּאָ֑רֶץ (bā·’ā·reṣ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land So Abram אַבְרָ֤ם (’aḇ·rām) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 87: Abram -- 'exalted father', the original name of Abraham went down וַיֵּ֨רֶד (way·yê·reḏ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend to Egypt מִצְרַ֙יְמָה֙ (miṣ·ray·māh) Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa to live there שָׁ֔ם (šām) Adverb Strong's 8033: There, then, thither for a while לָג֣וּר (lā·ḡūr) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 1481: To turn aside from the road, sojourn, to shrink, fear, to gather for, hostility because כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction the famine הָרָעָ֖ב (hā·rā·‘āḇ) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7458: Famine, hunger was severe. כָבֵ֥ד (ḵā·ḇêḏ) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 3515: Heavy Links Genesis 12:10 NIVGenesis 12:10 NLT Genesis 12:10 ESV Genesis 12:10 NASB Genesis 12:10 KJV Genesis 12:10 BibleApps.com Genesis 12:10 Biblia Paralela Genesis 12:10 Chinese Bible Genesis 12:10 French Bible Genesis 12:10 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 12:10 There was a famine in the land (Gen. 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