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Genesis 13:1–2

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Abram’s Solution to the Strife

13:1So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev.1 He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.213:2(Now Abram was very wealthy3 in livestock, silver, and gold.)4

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Or “the South [country]” (also in v. 3). Negev is the name for the southern desert region in the land of Canaan.
  2. 2 Heb “And Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all which was his, and Lot with him, to the Negev.”
  3. 3 Heb “heavy.”
  4. 4 This parenthetical clause, introduced by the vav (ו) disjunctive (translated “now”), provides information necessary to the point of the story.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev—he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him. Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.

NLTNew Living Translation

So Abram left Egypt and traveled north into the Negev, along with his wife and Lot and all that they owned. (Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.)

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that was with him. And Lot went with him to the Negev. Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

KJV 1900King James Version

And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.