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Genesis 13 Bible study: Lift up your eyes
Abram, whose offspring were promised the land, lets Lot choose first. Lot lifts up his eyes and moves toward Sodom; then God tells Abram to lift up his eyes, promises all he can see to him and his offspring forever, and promises offspring as countless as the dust.
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“Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.”
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“Abram let his nephew Lot choose his land first.”
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What's really going on
Back to the altar
After Egypt, Abram goes "as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning… to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the LORD’s name" (13:3-4). The chapter begins with him returning to where he had worshiped before Egypt (12:8).
Where it leads to Jesus
Heirs according to promise
Genesis 13:15leads toGalatians 3:29
“I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever” (13:15). Paul writes that “the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring”, meant “as of one… which is Christ” (Galatians 3:16), and, “If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise” (Galatians 3:29).
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That was a taste
The rest of Genesis 13 is waiting in Favor
- Two men lift up their eyes
- Toward Sodom
- Lot, later
- Dust, stars and sand
- 9 questions as you read
- 5 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
עָפָרafarsay a-FAR
Dry earth, dust (Brown-Driver-Briggs). Dust has a history in Genesis: the man was formed from "the dust of the ground" (2:7), the serpent would "eat dust" (3:14), and "you are dust, and you shall return to dust" (3:19). Now God uses dust as the picture of his promise: "I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth" (13:16), a picture he repeats to Jacob (28:14).
For your group
Genesis 13 Bible study questions
- 1Abram let Lot choose first to keep the peace. What makes it hard to give up your rights for the sake of peace?
- 2Lot chose what looked best, and it led him toward Sodom. How do you make choices when something looks good but may lead toward trouble?
- 3God told Abram to lift up his eyes and look in every direction. Where do you need God to lift your eyes right now?
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