And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Very rich - compared with the pastoral tribes to which Abram belonged. An Arab sheich is considered rich who has a hundred or two hundred tents, from sixty to a hundred camels, a thousand sheep and goats respectively. And Abram, being very rich, must have far exceeded that amount of pastoral property. 'Gold and silver' being rare among these people, his probably arose from the sale of his produce in Egypt.