When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people;
And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.
And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.
And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:
And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:
When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;
He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,