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  1. Genesis 13:11b-13

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 13:11b . .Thus they parted from each other;[/B]

    That must have been a weird feeling for both men. They had been together since Ur.

    To me, it would have made better horse sense in a foreign land to consolidate their holdings-- sort of an Abraham & Lot Inc. --instead of maintaining two separate independent enterprises. But I guess Lot had ambitions and wanted to be his own man.

    Either Lot had more mettle ...
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  2. Genesis 13:1-11a

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 13:1-2 . . From Egypt, Abram went up into the Negeb, with his wife and all that he possessed, together with Lot. Now Abram was very rich in cattle, silver, and gold.[/B]

    The word for "rich" is from [I]kabad[/I] (kaw-bad') which means: to be heavy, i.e. in either a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses); viz: which is why, ...
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  3. Genesis 12:12-20

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 12:13 . . I beseech you; say that you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that I may remain alive thanks to you.[/B]

    Abram didn't have to entreat Sarai to go along with his scheme. According to Gen 18:12 and 1Pet 3:6, she regarded her husband's position above her own.

    This scene is useful for exemplifying the gracious nature of this amazing man of God. Though he was a king in his own home, ...
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  4. Genesis 12:7c-12

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 12:7c-8 . . And he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him. From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and he built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the Lord by name.[/B]

    Eusebius Onomasticon, placed Bethel twelve Roman miles north from Jerusalem, on the road to Neapolis. The site today is represented by the modern town of Beitin, ...
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  5. Genesis 12:1-3a

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    [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 12:1. .The Lord said to Abram: Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you.[/B]

    Stephen said Abram was still living in Ur, and hadn't moved up to Haran yet when God called him to leave his kin (Acts 7:2-3). There's no record of any interaction with God all the while that Abram lived in Haran. Yhvh was silent, and waiting for Abram to get with the program and do as He said-- leave ...
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