herds, Abram left the country. He never ventured to Egypt again. The danger of shortage in Canaan was to be preferred to the moral and spiritual dangers he had hardly been aware of when he went to Egypt. Indeed it was a sin of omission in the first instance which had ultimately involved him in cowardice and betrayal of his wife: he had failed to draw near to the Lord, and had failed therefore to trust him, when trouble struck. The source of his danger was confidence in his own judgment. Like Abram,