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Genesis 12:9

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12:9Abram continually journeyed by stages27 down to the Negev.28

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  1. 27 The Hebrew verb נָסַע (nasa’) means “to journey”; more specifically it means to pull up the tent and move to another place. The construction here uses the preterite of this verb with its infinitive absolute to stress the activity of traveling. But it also adds the infinitive absolute of הָלַךְ (halakh) to stress that the traveling was continually going on. Thus “Abram journeyed, going and journeying” becomes “Abram continually journeyed by stages.”
  2. 28 Or “the South [country].” Negev is the name for the southern desert region in the land of Canaan.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And Abram kept moving on, toward the Negev.

KJV 1900King James Version

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.