Creation & Patriarchs
Abraham and Lot Separate
Abraham and Lot Separate is dated ≈ 2090 BC in the Modern reckoning and 1920 BC in the Traditional. It is told in Genesis 13:1–18. Abraham, Lot are part of it.
So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.
When did it happen?
- Modern reckoning
- ≈ 2090 BC (placed between the dated events around it)
- Traditional reckoning
- 1920 BC
Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.
Where is it in the Bible?
Who was there, and where?
Where: Sodom, Plain of Jordan, Canaan, Hebron.
Which verses connect to Genesis 13:1?
The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).
- Genesis 12:9–203 votes
And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev. Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. …
- Joshua 10:403 votes
So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
- 2 Samuel 24:73 votes
They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.
- Genesis 20:12 votes
Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
- Genesis 21:332 votes
And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
- Joshua 18:52 votes
and divide the land into seven portions. Judah shall remain in their territory in the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in their territory in the north.
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.