GENESIS CHAPTER 13 Abram returns from Egypt to Canaan with Lot, Genesis 13:1. He comes to Beth-el; calls on the Lord, Genesis 13:3,4. Abram and Lot being both very rich are obliged to part. Lot goes to Sodom, Genesis 13:5-12. The men of Sodom exceeding wicked, Genesis 13:13. God renews his promise to Abram concerning Canaan and a numerous issue, Genesis 13:14-17. Abram removes to Mamre, and there builds an altar, Genesis 13:18. 1918 i.e. Into the southern part of Canaan, from whence he came, Genesis 12:9, and which in Scripture is called simply the south, Joshua 10:40, Joshua 11:16. Otherwise he went rather into the north: but the Scripture being written for the Jews, doth frequently accommodate the names of the quarters of the world to them.
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Genesis 13:1
1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.