CHAPTER Xl!I. ally, rtoi,ig with Al,,,·rtm), had (were) flocks and herds and tents. TI,c uncle's pros- Yor. !.-And Abre.m went up out of Egypt, perity overflowerl upon the nephew. Rosrn- he e.nd his wife. A special mercy that miiller inclurles in the tents the dornesti,,., either of them 1·eturned, considering the sin am! servant.~, qui in tentorii.3 ,leitchanf, they had committed e.nd tho peril in which (cf. 1 Chron iv. 41). And the land was not they hnd been placed. And a.II the.t he had. able to bee.r them. Literally, did not bear, Referring principally to tho soula, "do- i. e. support their households an,] flocks. mestici" (Poole), ncr1uired in Haran (eh. That they should dwell together. Jn conse- llii. 5, 16), his matcnal wealth being men- quence partly of the scarce pastnrcir{c, tJ,,, tioned afterwurds. And Lot ( who docs not land probably having not yet sufficicntlv nppcnr in the preceding paragraph, no part recovered from the drought, but chielly of which relates to him, but is now reintro- because of their increasing wealth. For duced into the narrntivc, the present portion thoir substance (vide eh. xii. 5) wa.e great, of the story being conncetetl with his for- so that they could not (literally, an,/, they tunes) with him into the south (so. of . were not able to) dwell together. Canaan, vide eh. xii. 9). Ver. 7.-And there·wa.s a strife (originat- Ver. 2._ ~ And Abram was very rich. ing doubtless in the scarcity or pasture, an,1 J,iterally, wr:i11lity ,· used in the sense of having for its object the posscs;ion of the e.bm1<.la11ce • (Ex()tl. xii. 38 ; 1 Kings ll. 2 ; best wells and most fertile grounds) batween ~ Kings vi. 14). • I_n cattle. Jlfi!cneh, from the herdmen of Abram's cattle and th~ ka,na; .to acquire by purchase, may apply to herdmen of Lot's cattle: an1 the Canaanite slaves a.s welt' as cattle (cf. cl1. xvii. 12, 13, -the lowlander (vide eh. ix. 22; xii. 6)- 23), In silver and gold. Mentioned for the and the Perizzite-thc hiµ;hlan,le:·, or cl \\·cllcr first time in ·Scripture; implying an ac- in the hills and ,mods of Palestine (.T osepl111•, ptaiutance among the Egyptians with the Ilochart}; in the open country and iu vil- operations of ruining allll the processes of lages, as opposed to the Canaanites, who relining the precious met.ils. Cf. the instmc- occupied walleJ. towns (Kalisch, Words- tions of Ameuomhat -r., which speak of that worth ; a tribe of wandering nomads (Jliu- n10narch, belonging to the twelfth dynasty, phy), the origin of ,~hose naruc is lost in as having built for himself a palace adorned. obscw·ity (Keil), who, though not mentionecl with gold (vide 'Records of the Past,' in eh. x., are comn10nly introduced mth tho vol. ii- p. 14). Canaanites (Gen. xv. 20 ; mh-. 30 ; Exo,l. Vers: 3, 4.-And he went oil.Ms journeys. iii. 8, 17), as dividing the land between Li tcrally, in his journeyings or stations (cf. them, and are probably to be regarded as eh. xi. 2 ; Exod, xvii. 1; Num. x. 6, 12}. 'l'he the remnant of an early Shemite race dis- renderings ,ca•i 11ropEi,611 oO,v ,j;\llw (tXX.) placed by the Hamite invaders of Palestine. Rnd reversus est per itei· quo venerat (V ulgate) Their introduction here is neither a sign of imply without warrant that• he used the post-Mosaic authorship nor an interpola- samo camping grouuds in his ascent which tion, but an explanation of the difficulty of he had previously occupied in his descent. finding pasture - the lan,l was occt~pictl From the sont_h eyen to Bethel (vide eh. llii. (vide eh. xii. 6)--dwelt then in the land. 8), unto the ple.ce where his tent had been Ver. 8.-And Abram said unto Lot. Per- e.t the ,beginning. Before his demigration ceiving probably that Lot's face was not into Egypt, i. e. not to Shechem, the site towards hilll as usual, and being desirous to of his fil'st altar, where probably he had not avert the danger of collision between his encamped for any length of time, if nt all, nephew and hilllself. Let there be no strife, ·but to a spot between Bethel and Ai (the I pray thee, between me and thee, and (i. e. exa~t situation being more minutely de- either identifyin~ himself and his nephew scribed as) unto the ple.ce of the alte.r, which with their subordinates, or fearing that the he had me.de there at the first. After strife of their subordinates might spread to entering the promised land. In reality it themselves, hence, as} between my herd- was the second altar he had erected (vide eh. men and thy herd.men; for we be breth- xii. 7, 8). And there Abram ea.lied on the ren. Literally, men /.;rethren (cf. eh. xi. name of the Lord. Professed the true allll 27, 31; Ex ...d. ii. 13; Ps. cxxxiii. 1). Abram pure worship of God (Calvin}; preached and nnd Lot were kinsmen by nature, by rela- t:rnght his family and Cauaanitish neigh- tionship, nnd by faith (vidJ eh. xi. 31; 2 bours the true religion (Luther}. Vide eh. Pot. ii. 7). xii. 8; iv. 26. Ver. 9.-Is not the wnole l!P.nd befors Vera. 5, 6.-And Lot also (literally, and thee l The Bethel plateau comman,ls n 11 aho to Lot), who wont with Abram (litcr- oxtcnsi1•e view of P;i\~stine (ride on nr. D). GliNESIS, 0 THE BOOK OF GENESIS. [c;n, XIII. 1-9.
~,eparat_e . thyself, I pray thee, from. ·me. I hus f!' n_ng Lot tho chmc'o of th? countrs:, If thou ,nit take the left hand _(literally, if I Hebrew term bcinl( in tho accnsntivo after a verb of motion (l(:nlisch, p. 344)-then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to to th-0 left hand (sc. thou mlt go), the the right hand, then I will go to the left.