wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live as an outsider there, because the famine was severe in the land.
So Abram kept on journeying southward.
In spite of such sin, will they escape? In fierce anger, O God, cast down such people!
So they set slave masters over them to afflict them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.
saying to him, ‘Run, speak to this young man saying: “Jerusalem will be inhabited as a village without walls because of the great number of men and livestock in it.