Genesis 13:3 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 13:3

From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Ai,

KJV

And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth–el and Hai;

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And he went on in his journeys from the south,.... He took the same tour, went the same road, stopping at the same resting places, as when he went down to Egypt; having learned, as Jarchi observes, the way of the earth, that a man should not change his host. Though some, as Ben Gersom, understand it of his taking his journeys as were suitable for his cattle, as they were able to bear them, and not overdrive them, lest he should kill them, but made short stages, and frequently stopped and rested.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙	vai.Ye.lekh	and he went	H1980 →
לְמַסָּעָ֔יו	le.ma.sa.'Av	to journeyings his	H4550 →
מִנֶּ֖גֶב	mi.Ne.gev	from [the] Negev	H5045 →
וְעַד־	ve.'ad-	and to	H5704 →
בֵּֽית־	beit-	Beth-	H1008 →
אֵ֑ל	'El	-el	H1008 →
עַד־	'ad-	to	H5704 →
הַמָּק֗וֹם	ha.ma.Kom	the place	H4725 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	where	H834 →
הָ֨יָה	Ha.yah	it had been	H1961 →
שָׁ֤ם	sham	there	H8033 →
אָֽהֳלוֹ֙	'o.ho.lo	tent his	H168 →
בַּתְּחִלָּ֔ה	ba.te.chi.Lah	at the beginning	H8462 →
בֵּ֥ין	bein	between	H996 →
בֵּֽית־	beit-	Beth-	H1008 →
אֵ֖ל	'el	-el	H1008 →
וּבֵ֥ין	u.Vein	and between	H996 →
הָעָֽי׃	ha.'Ai	<the> Ai	H5857 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
leads to
- Hebrews 11:9
  By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
- Deuteronomy 11:30
  Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?
- Genesis 35:4
  So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- Genesis 13:7
  And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
- Judges 7:1
  Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the…