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472 B
There was a famine
The crops did not grow well that season. This can be made explicit. Alternate translation: "There was a shortage of food" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
in the land
"in the area" or "in the land where Abram was living"
went down into
Possible meanings are 1) "went further south" or 2) "went away from Canaan into." It would be best to translate this using your usual words for going from a higher place to a lower place.