1 Chronicles 16:20

New Century Version

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

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At this time there was not much food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because there was so little food.

Abraham left Hebron and traveled to southern Canaan where he stayed awhile between Kadesh and Shur. When he moved to Gerar,

Then God said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go to Egypt, because I will make your descendants a great nation there.

They also took their farm animals and everything they had gotten in Canaan. So Jacob went to Egypt with all his descendants—

Then God’s people were few in number, and they were strangers in the land.

But he did not let anyone hurt them; he warned kings not to harm them.