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Genesis 12:9
And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.
Genesis 12:9 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Genesis 12:9 in other translations
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.
Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.
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In context
6 Abram passed through the country unto the place of Sichem, as far as the noble vale: now the Chanaanite was at that time in the land.
7 And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 And 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.
9 And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.
10 And 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.
11 And when he was near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman:
12 And that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife: and they will kill me, and keep thee.
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