Genesis 13:1

So Abram and Sarai left Egypt, and they took along all his possessions, and Lot went with them to the Negev Desert.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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 very rich. He owned a lot of livestock, silver and gold.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:9Then they left there and started traveling south to the Negev Desert.

Genesis 21:33Abraham planted a ◄tamarisk tree/kind of tree called esel► there, and he worshiped the eternal God there.

Joshua 18:5They will divide the remaining land into seven parts. The tribe of Judah will keep its land in the south, and the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh will keep their land in the north.

2 Samuel 24:7Then they went south to Tyre, a city with high walls around it, and to all the cities where the Hiv and Canaan people-groups live. Then they went east to Beersheba, in the southern part of Judah.

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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