But there was a famine in Canaan, and it was so bad that Abram went farther south to Egypt, to live there for a while.

Abraham moved from Mamre to the southern part of Canaan and lived between Kadesh and Shur. Later, while he was living in Gerar,

"I am God, the God of your father," he said. "Do not be afraid to go to Egypt; I will make your descendants a great nation there.

They took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan and went to Egypt. Jacob took all his descendants with him: