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    Genesis 13

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    The loveliest stretch of country in Genesis 13 comes with Sodom at the far end of it, like a splendid view with an ominous footnote.

    A return to the altarvv. 1–4

    Abram comes up from Egypt with his wife, his possessions, and Lot, carrying rather more wealth than the landscape can comfortably ignore: livestock, silver, and gold. He retraces his steps toward Bethel, reaches the place where his tent and altar had stood, and calls on the name of the LORD. The return is both geographical and devotional, though the herds will soon make the neighbourhood rather less peaceful.

    Too much abundance for one pasturevv. 5–13

    Lot has flocks, herds, and tents of his own, and the two households have acquired the awkward sort of prosperity that leaves no room to stand beside one another. Their herdsmen quarrel, so Abram proposes a separation with exemplary simplicity: left for one, right for the other. Lot chooses the whole Jordan plain, lush as the garden of the LORD and as Egypt, then pitches his tent toward Sodom; the narrator, having shown the view, points out the inhabitants.

    The view opens againvv. 14–18

    After Lot has gone, the LORD tells Abram to lift his eyes in every direction. The apparent loss of the plain becomes a promise of all the land in sight, together with offspring beyond counting. Abram then moves to the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he builds another altar—one might almost think he is leaving a trail of them across the map.

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    1. Gen 13:1So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.

    2. Gen 13:2And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.

    3. Gen 13:3From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,

    4. Gen 13:4to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

    5. Gen 13:5Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

    6. Gen 13:6But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.

    7. Gen 13:7And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.

    8. Gen 13:8So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are kinsmen.

    9. Gen 13:9Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

    10. Gen 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

    11. Gen 13:11So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

    12. Gen 13:12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

    13. Gen 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

    14. Gen 13:14After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

    15. Gen 13:15for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

    16. Gen 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

    17. Gen 13:17Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”

    18. Gen 13:18So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

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    • 152 Chronicles 20:7Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
    • 10Deuteronomy 34:3the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.
    • 2Genesis 24:35“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
    • 2Psalms 112:1–3Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
    • 7Genesis 26:20But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
    • 81 Corinthians 6:6–7Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!
    • 10Isaiah 51:3For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
    • 15Genesis 35:12The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
    • 15Acts 7:5He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.
    • 15Psalms 37:22Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.
    • 18Genesis 35:27Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
    • 18Genesis 14:13Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.
    • 18Genesis 18:1Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.
    • 18Genesis 8:20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
    • 2Job 22:21–25Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.
    • 2Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.

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