Genesis 13:14

Translations

Modern

After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

Traditional

And the Lord said unto 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:

Literal

And YHWH said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are—northward and southward and eastward and westward.

Latin

Dixitque Dominus ad Abram, postquam divisus est ab eo Lot: Leva oculos tuos et vide a loco, in quo nunc es, ad aquilonem et meridiem, ad orientem et occidentem.

Interlinear

Hebrew

English

After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

Notes

Genesis 13:14–17

Abram could give Lot the choice land because he believed in God’s promise. Abram waited for God to give him the land. Lot just took what he wanted.

Genesis 13:11–18

The narrator makes many contrasts between Lot and Abram.

Theme notes and profiles

Abraham Lot Holy War Inheriting the Land Promised Land Symbolic Numbers The Land

Events

Abraham and Lot Separatec. 1920 BC

Related verses

Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
Deuteronomy 3:27
Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
Isaiah 49:18
Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
Isaiah 60:4
Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.
Genesis 13:10
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

People

Abraham: Patriarch, chosen by God to father His people Lot: Abraham's nephew; rescued from Sodom's destruction

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Ebla Tablets Genesis, Book of Land Patriarchs, Period of the Sodom and Gomorrah

Topics

Canaan: Land of Promised to Abraham and his Seed Land: Original Title To, from God Lot: The Son of Haran: Separates from Abraham, and Locates in Sodom The Canaanites: Abraham was Promised the Country of, of Inheritance The Jews: Promises Respecting Made to Abraham

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