Genesis 13:4-5

13:4 This was the place where he had first built the altar, 1  and there Abram worshiped the Lord. 2 

13:5 Now Lot, who was traveling 3  with Abram, also had 4  flocks, herds, and tents.

1 tn Heb “to the place of the altar which he had made there in the beginning” (cf. Gen 12:7-8).

2 tn Heb “he called in the name of the Lord.” The expression refers to worshiping the Lord through prayer and sacrifice (see Gen 4:26; 12:8; 21:33; 26:25). See G. J. Wenham, Genesis (WBC), 1:116, 281.

3 tn Heb “was going.”

4 tn The Hebrew idiom is “to Lot…there was,” the preposition here expressing possession.