Genesis 12:8-10
8From there he moved to the hill country on the east of aBethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord. 9And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10Now bthere was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.Genesis 13:18
18So Abram moved his tent and came and csettled by the doaks ▼▼Or terebinths
of Mamre, which fare at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord. Genesis 20:1
Abraham and Abimelech
1From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between gKadesh and Shur; and he hsojourned in iGerar.Genesis 23:4
4 j“I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; kgive me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”Genesis 26:1
God’s Promise to Isaac
1Now there was a famine in the land, besides lthe former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to mAbimelech king of the nPhilistines.Genesis 26:23
23From there he went up to Beersheba.Genesis 33:19
19And from the sons of oHamor, Shechem’s father, phe bought for a hundred pieces of money ▼▼Hebrew a hundred qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value
the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent. Genesis 35:1
God Blesses and Renames Jacob
1God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to rBethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you swhen you fled from your brother Esau.”Deuteronomy 7:1
A Chosen People
1“When the tLord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, uthe Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations vmore numerous and mightier than you,
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