Now there was a famine in the land. (Gen 12,10)

Abram was confused. So far his pursuit of a new God has been much more successful for him than he thought before. This God accompanied him and brought him here - we do not know how, but we know that he showed him the way ("go to the land which I will show you". 12,3) Awareness of the special protection, the knowledge that there is a supernatural power which benefits him, protects him on his journey - all this has not completely disappeared but it was difficult for him to understand the contradiction between what he was feeling inside and how things looked from the outside.

Of course, Abram asked himself whether he could not be wrong and if he did not make a mistake - is he really in the right place? But no matter from which point of view he looked at it, he could only say there was no doubt. He only went where this God led him, he was not mistaken. After all, he testified it to him again when he appeared to him recently.

So it was no mistake. But some mistake is here anyway, and a big one - things don't work anymore. If Abram was not mistaken, that means only one thing - this God is not as powerful, perhaps even not omnipotent, as Abram nearly believed. He had witnessed that people from the surrounding tribes had changed their idol for another one when they discovered that it did not bring them the protection, success, and victory in the struggles they expected. Or if they did not change, then at least added to the existing god a new one, from which they expected more. Apparently that's the way it is with gods. Everyone worships something, but there are times when you have to help yourself alone.

So there seems to be no choice than to leave the country and go somewhere where there is still abundance. If there is a certainty in this world in this respect, it is for no reason called the "granary of the world" - Egypt.

He looked at one of the last altars he had built in the country. He knew that he would build no altar of the Lord in Egypt, and he felt a little strange at the thought of leaving. It was as if he - by means of the altars - anounced to the inhabitants of Kannan something he himself did not quite believe any more.