Bible Strands
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,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — After Lot separates from Abram, Yahweh addresses Abram directly, commanding him to look outward from his current location.
The words — The text uses הִפָּֽרֶד־ (hipa.red) for "separated" and אַחֲרֵי֙ (acha.rei) for "after" to mark the precise moment Lot’s departure triggers the divine speech.
The thread — The four-directional command to look appears in Genesis 28:14, Deuteronomy 3:27, and Isaiah 49:18.
Why it lands — The verse demands a physical act of observation that immediately precedes the land promise in Genesis 13:15, requiring the reader to note that divine instruction follows human separation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Cross-references
- Genesis 28:14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
- Deuteronomy 3:27 Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
- Isaiah 49:18 Lift up your eyes and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “you will wear them all as jewelry and put them on like a bride.
- Isaiah 60:4 Lift up your eyes and look around: They all gather and come to you; your sons will come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on the arm.
- Genesis 13:10 And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)