Genesis 13:2–4
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13:2(Now Abram was very wealthy3 in livestock, silver, and gold.)4
13:3And he journeyed from place to place5 from the Negev as far as Bethel.6 He returned7 to the place where he had pitched his tent8 at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai. 13:4This was the place where he had first built the altar,9 and there Abram worshiped the Lord.10
Footnotes
- 3 Heb “heavy.”
- 4 This parenthetical clause, introduced by the vav (ו) disjunctive (translated “now”), provides information necessary to the point of the story.
- 5 Heb “on his journeys”; the verb and noun combination means to pick up the tents and move from camp to camp.
- 6 For location see ; ; ; ; .
- 7 The words “he returned” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
- 8 Heb “where his tent had been.”
- 9 Heb “to the place of the altar which he had made there in the beginning” (cf. Gen 12:7–8).
- 10 Heb “he called in the name of the Lord.” The expression refers to worshiping the Lord through prayer and sacrifice (see Gen 4:26; 12:8; 21:33; 26:25). See G. J. Wenham, Genesis (), 1:, .
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the Lord.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold. He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been, to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of the Lord there.
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NLTNew Living Translation
(Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.) From the Negev, they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, and they pitched their tents between Bethel and Ai, where they had camped before. This was the same place where Abram had built the altar, and there he worshiped the Lord again.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold. And he went according to his journey from the Negev, then to Bethel, to the place where his tent was at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, to the place where he had made an altar at the beginning. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there.
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KJV 1900King James Version
And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai; Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
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