10There 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.


In Context

7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, |I will give this land to your seed.| He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

8 He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.

9 Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

10 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.

11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, |See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

12 It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

Genesis 12:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine [was] grievous in the land.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:10Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:10And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:10And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to dwell there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:10And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goeth down towards Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine is grievous in the land;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.