1 Chronicles 16:20

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

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There was a famine in the land. Avram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Avraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

He said, *I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Kena`an, and came into Egypt--Ya`akov, and all his seed with him,

when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.

He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,