“Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.”
Genesis 12:10
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- Abram in Egypt: The Fear That Nearly Cost the Promise (Genesis 12)
What sent Abram down to Egypt?
A famine struck the very land God had just promised to Abram's offspring, so the first test of the promise was that the land could not feed him. Abram "went down to Egypt," yarad (H3381), the word for every later descent into Egypt. There he built no altar and did not call on the LORD; the man who had lived on God's voice went silent when the pressure rose.
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