Translations
Modern
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
Traditional
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Literal
Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for to you I give it.”
Latin
Surge, et perambula terram in longitudine et in latitudine sua: quia tibi daturus sum eam.
Original
Hebrew
English
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
Notes
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.
The narrator makes many contrasts between Lot and Abram.
Theme notes and profiles
Abraham Holy War Inheriting the Land Promised Land Symbolic Numbers The Land
Events
- Abraham and Lot Separatec. 1920 BC
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 The Canaanites: Abraham was Promised the Country of, of Inheritance The Jews: Promises Respecting Made to Abraham