He left from there to go 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 the LORD† and called on the LORD’s name.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 12:8 in context
Genesis 12:5–11
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Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.
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Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.
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The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.”
He built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
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He left from there to go 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 the LORD† and called on the LORD’s name.
9
Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.
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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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When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
Source notes
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- LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.
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