Genesis 13:1

So Abram, Sarai, and Lot left Egypt and went back to the dry desert country. They took everything they owned, and all their workers.

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And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

In Context

2Abram was a very rich man. He had a lot of silver and gold, and a big mob of animals.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:9After that, Abram and his mob kept going south to the dry desert country.

Genesis 21:33Then Abraham showed respect to God there in Beersheba. He called God by his special name Yahweh, and he planted a special tree to remember that place. Yahweh is the true God that lives for ever.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:1

In this chapter we have a further account concerning Abram. I. In general, of his condition and behaviour in the land of promise, which was now the land of his pilgrimage. 1. His removes, ver. 1 , 3 , 4, , 18 . 2. His riches, ver. 2 . 3. His devotion, ver. 4 , 18 . II. A particular account of a quarrel that happened between him and Lot. 1. The unhappy occasion of their strife ver. 5, 6 . 2. The parties concerned in the strife, with the aggravation of it, ver. 7 . III. The making up of the quarrel, by the prudence… Read the whole commentary →

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