Text -- Genesis 13:1-3 (NET)

Abram’s Solution to the Strife

13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot. 13:2 (Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.) 13:3 And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 13:1

¹ tn Or “the South [country]” (also in v. 3).

sn Negev is the name for the southern desert region in the land of Canaan.

² tn Heb “And Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all which was his, and Lot with him, to the Negev.”

NET Notes: Gen 13:2

¹ tn Heb “heavy.”

² tn This parenthetical clause, introduced by the vav (ו) disjunctive (translated “now”), provides information necessary to the point of the story.

NET Notes: Gen 13:3

¹ tn Heb “on his journeys”; the verb and noun combination means to pick up the tents and move from camp to camp.

² map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

³ tn The words “he returned” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Heb “where his tent had been.”