Genesis 13:14-18

14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "¹Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where * you are, ²northward and southward and eastward and westward;

15 ³for all the land which you see, ⁴I will give it to you and to your descendants forever *.

16 "I will make your descendants ⁵as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered.

17 "Arise, ⁶walk about the land through its length and breadth; for ⁷I will give it to you."

18 Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the ⁸oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built ⁹an altar to the LORD.

Genesis 13:14-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 13

This chapter gives an account of the return of Abram from Egypt to the land of Canaan, and to the same place in it he had been before, Ge 13:1-4 and of a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot, and the occasion of it, Ge 13:5-7 which was composed by the prudent proposal of Abram, Ge 13:8,9 upon which they parted; Abram continued in Canaan, and Lot chose the plain of Jordan, and dwelt near Sodom, a place infamous for wickedness, Ge 13:10-13 after which the Lord renewed to Abram the grant of the land of Canaan to him, and to his seed, Ge 13:14-17 and then he removed to the plain of Mamre in Hebron, and there set up the worship of God, Ge 13:18.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 34:1-4; Isaiah 49:18
• 2. Genesis 28:14
• 3. Genesis 12:7
• 4. Genesis 13:17; Genesis 15:7; Genesis 17:8; 2 Chronicles 20:7; Acts 7:5
• 5. Genesis 16:10; Genesis 28:14; Numbers 23:10
• 6. Numbers 13:17-24
• 7. Genesis 13:15
• 8. Genesis 14:13
• 9. Genesis 8:20; Genesis 12:7, 8

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "seed"
• [b]. Lit "seed"
• [c]. Lit "seed"
• [d]. Or "terebinths"