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Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South. See also: Joshua 10:402 Samuel 24:7Genesis 12:9-20Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. See also: Psalms 112:1-3Genesis 24:35Proverbs 10:22He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, See also: Genesis 12:8-9Genesis 12:6to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the LORD’s name. See also: Jeremiah 29:12Ephesians 6:18-19Genesis 12:7-8Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents. See also: Genesis 25:27Jeremiah 49:29Genesis 4:20The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together. See also: Genesis 36:6-7Ecclesiastes 5:10-111 Timothy 6:9There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time. See also: Genesis 26:20Genesis 12:6James 3:16Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives. See also: 1 Corinthians 6:6-7Acts 7:26Psalms 133:1Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.” See also: Genesis 34:10Genesis 20:15Hebrews 12:14Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. See also: Deuteronomy 34:3Isaiah 51:3Genesis 14:8So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another. See also: Genesis 13:91 Peter 2:17Psalms 119:63Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. See also: Genesis 19:29Genesis 19:1Genesis 14:12Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD. See also: 2 Peter 2:102 Peter 2:6-8Jude 1:7The LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, See also: Deuteronomy 3:27Genesis 28:14Isaiah 49:18for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever. See also: 2 Chronicles 20:7Genesis 15:18Genesis 12:7I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted. See also: Numbers 23:10Genesis 28:14Genesis 22:17Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.” See also: Genesis 13:15Numbers 13:17-24Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD. See also: Genesis 14:13Genesis 8:20Genesis 18:1
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)9 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Introduction to the chapter
Ver 1. South. With respect to Judea, which the sacred writers have always in view.
Genesis 13:2
Ver. 2. Rich in possession. Heb. may be "heavy laden with cattle, gold," &c. M.
↑ 2Genesis 13:6
Ver. 6. To bear or feed their flocks, as well as those of the Chanaanites. C.
↑ 6Genesis 13:8
Ver. 8. Abram therefore, for fear of raising a quarrel with the Pherezites also, who might complain that these strangers were eating up what they had before taken possession of, suggests to his nephew the propriety of their taking different courses.
Being the older, he divides, and the younger chooses, according to an ancient and laudable custom. S. Aug. de C. D.
xvi. 20.
↑ 8Genesis 13:11
Ver. 11. From the east of Pentapolis to Sodom, (M.) or to the east of the place where Abram was, as Onkelos has it. The Hebrew may signify either. Grotius.
↑ 11Genesis 13:13
Ver. 13. Sinners before, &c. That is, truly, without restraint or disguise. Lot might not have been acquainted with their dissolute morals, when he made this choice; in which however he consulted only his senses, and looked for temporal advantages, which ended in sorrow. This God permitted for a warning to us; and to restrain the Sodomites, by the example of Lot's justice, contrasted with the abominable lives. H. ---
Ezechiel xvi. 49, explains the causes of their wickedness.
↑ 13Genesis 13:15
Ver. 15. And to: This is by way of explanation to the former words: (Ha.) for Abram never possessed a foot of this land by inheritance. Acts viii. 5. Even his posterity never enjoyed it, at least, for any long time. S. Augustine gives the reason; because the promise was conditional, and the Jews did not fulfil their part by obedience and fidelity. q. 3. in Gen. It is better, however, to understand these promises of another land, which the people, who imitate the faith of Abram, shall enjoy in the world to come. C. Rom. iv. 16.
↑ 15Genesis 13:16
Ver. 16. As the dust, an hyperbole, to express a very numerous offspring, which is more exact, if we take in the spiritual children of Abram. M.
↑ 16Genesis 13:17
Ver. 17. Through. Lot has chosen a part, I give the whole to thee. Thou mayest take possession of it, and go wherever thou hast a mind. C.
↑ 17Genesis 13:18
Ver. 18. Vale, or grove of oaks, where there was a famous one which was called the oak of Mambre, either from the neighbouring city, or from a man of that name. C. xiv. 13. M. --
Hebron was on the hill above. C.
↑ 18License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses