Bible Strands
Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Following Abram’s offer to separate in Genesis 13:9, Lot acts after surveying the Jordan plain in Genesis 13:10. He selects the territory for himself, departs eastward, and finalizes the physical separation from Abram.
The words — The Hebrew verbs וַיִּבְחַר (vayivchar, "he chose") and וַיִּסַּע (vayissa, "he set out") structure the verse’s action. These terms record Lot’s deliberate selection and immediate movement away from the shared camp.
The thread — This departure completes the division initiated in Genesis 13:9 and leads directly to Lot’s tent-pitching near Sodom in Genesis 13:12. The narrative sequence of choosing land and moving east recurs in patriarchal accounts of territorial settlement.
Why it lands — The text states Lot’s choice and eastward departure as factual events without commentary or approval. Readers must observe the sequence of action first before noting the subsequent consequences of that decision.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Cross-references
- Genesis 13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
- Psalms 119:63 I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
- Proverbs 27:10 Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
- Hebrews 10:25 Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- 1 Peter 2:17 Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
- Genesis 13:14 After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
- Psalms 16:3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
- Genesis 19:17 As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”