geneva@Genesis:13:1 @ And (note:)His great riches gotten in Egypt, did not hinder him in following his vocation.(:note) Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
geneva@Genesis:13:3 @ And he went on his journeys from the south even to (note:)He calls the place by the name which was later given to it, (Gen_23:19).(:note) Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
geneva@Genesis:13:4 @ Vnto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the Lord.
geneva@Genesis:13:6 @ And the land was not able to (note:)This inconvenience came by their riches, which break friendships and the bounds of nature.(:note) bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
geneva@Genesis:13:7 @ And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the (note:)Who seeing their contention, might blaspheme God and destroy them.(:note) Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
geneva@Genesis:13:8 @ And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no (note:)He cuts off the opportunity for contention: therefore the evil ceases.(:note) strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we [be] brethren.
geneva@Genesis:13:9 @ [Is] not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt (note:)Abram resigns his own right to buy peace.(:note) take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if [thou depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
geneva@Genesis:13:10 @ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the (note:)Which was in Eden, (Gen_2:10).(:note) garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
geneva@Genesis:13:11 @ Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the (note:)This was done by God's providence, that only Abram and his seed might dwell in the land of Canaan.(:note) one from the other.
geneva@Genesis:13:12 @ Abram dwelled in the lande of Canaan, and Lot abode in the cities of the plaine, and pitched his tent euen to Sodom.
geneva@Genesis:13:13 @ But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and (note:)Lot thinking to get paradise, found hell.(:note) sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
geneva@Genesis:13:14 @ And the LORD said unto (note:)The Lord comforted him, lest he should have taken thought for the departure of his nephew.(:note) Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
geneva@Genesis:13:15 @ For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for (note:)Meaning a long time, and till the coming of Christ as in (Exo_12:14, Exo_21:6; Deu_15:17) and spiritually this refers to the true children of Abram born according to the promise, and not according to the flesh, which are heirs of the true land of Canaan.(:note) ever.
geneva@Genesis:13:16 @ And I will make thy seede, as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede be numbred.
geneva@Genesis:13:17 @ Arise, walke through the land, in ye length thereof, and breadth thereof: for I will giue it vnto thee.
geneva@Genesis:13:18 @ Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelled in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and builded there an altar vnto ye Lorde.