The Negev
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Abram journeys on, stage by stage, toward the Negev.
The Negev was pastureland in good years and in bad, the grazing country of the patriarchs around Beersheba. It was the threshold of Canaan: the spies entered the land through it.
The dry southland of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, between Hebron and the wilderness of Sinai.
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The Negev depends on a few inches of rain and on wells. Beersheba's well is a site precisely because water there is life or death.
- Genesis 12:9 Abram journeys on, stage by stage, toward the Negev.
- Genesis 20:1 Abraham sojourns in the Negev, between Kadesh and Shur
- Genesis 24:62 Isaac dwells in the Negev when Rebekah arrives
- Numbers 13:17 The spies sent up through the Negev into the hill country
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- Scripture places the patriarchs' sojourning in the Negev around Beersheba.