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Genesis 12:9: A direction of travel, and no arrival

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Genesis 12:8ESV

From there he moved to the hill country on the east of and pitched his tent, with on the west and on the east. And there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.

ESV

And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the .

Genesis 12:10ESV

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

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