Genesis 13:1-4

Abram and Lot Separate

1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.

2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier

4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 13:1-4 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. Genesis 45:25
• 2. S Genesis 12:9
• 3. S Genesis 11:27
• 4. S Genesis 12:5; Genesis 26:13; Proverbs 10:22
• 5. Genesis 32:15; Job 1:3; Job 42:12
• 6. S Genesis 12:9
• 7. S Genesis 12:8
• 8. Joshua 7:2
• 9. S Genesis 12:7
• 10. S Genesis 4:26