Arise, walk through the land, &c.— That is, not only to take an exact survey of the gift: but also thus to vest himself, as it were, in that property, to which God had given him the right of inheritance.
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Genesis 13:17
17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.