Genesis - 12:9



9 Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 12:9.

Differing Translations

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And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south.
And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.
And Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south.
And Abram journeyeth, going on and journeying towards the south.
And he went on, journeying still to the South.
Abram traveled, going on still toward the Negev.
Profectus est et Abram eundo et proficiscendo ad Meridiem.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And Abram journeyed. This was the third removal of the holy man within a short period, after he seemed to have found some kind of abode. It is certain that he did not voluntarily, and for his own gratification, run hither and thither, (as light-minded persons are wont to do:) but there were certain necessities which drove him forth, in order to teach him, by continual habit, that he was not only a stranger, but a wretched wanderer in the land of which he was the lord. Yet no common fruit was the result of so many changes; because he endeavored, as much as in him lay, to dedicate to God, every part of the land to which he had access, and perfumed it with the odour of his faith.

(k) And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
(k) Thus the children of God may look for no rest in this world, but must wait for the heavenly rest and quietness.

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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