Genesis 12:10

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

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The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.

The Journeys of Abraham and the PatriarchsThe journeys of Abraham and the patriarchs from Ur through Canaan and into Egypt.

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Haran was Abram’s former home; in Canaan he traveled through Shechem and the oak of Moreh, then between Bethel and Ai and south into the Negeb, marking the land God promised him. Famine then drove him to Egypt,

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Genesis 12:10 mentions Ai, Bethel, Canaan, Egypt, Haran, Moreh, Negeb and Shechem.

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