Genesis 13:1

CHAPTER XIII

Abram and his family return out of Egypt to Canaan, 1, 2.

He revisits Beth-el, and there invokes the Lord, 3, 4.

In consequence of the great increase in the flocks of Abram

and Lot, their herdmen disagree; which obliges the patriarch

and his nephew to separate, 5-9.

Lot being permitted to make his choice of the land, chooses

the plains of Jordan, 10,11,

and pitches his tent near to Sodom, while Abram abides in

Canaan, 12.

Bad character of the people of Sodom, 13.

The Lord renews his promise to Abram, 14-17.

Abram removes to the plains of Mamre, near Hebron, and builds

an altar to the Lord, 18.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIII

Verse Genesis 13:1. Abram went up out of Egypt - into the south.] Probably the south of Canaan, as In leaving Egypt he is said to come from the south, Genesis 13:3, for the southern part of the promised land lay north-east of Egypt.