the Piʿēl, signifying ‘let go’], which occurs so often in Exodus, being used. After leaving Egypt, Abram went up into the Negeb (13:1), in the same way as the spies whom Moses sent to spy out the land after the exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt went up to the Negeb (Num. 13:17: Go up into the Negeb yonder; ibid. v. 22: They went up into the Negeb). Just as it is stated here of Abram: And he went ON HIS JOURNEYS [לְמַסָּעָיו lemassāʿāw] (13:3), so we are told of the children of Israel: All