OLD TESTAMENT

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 severe in the land.

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Verse 10. Down into Egypt, which lies lower than Judea: here the famine did not rage. God would not allow him to go back to his friends. Menochius.

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