⁹ Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.^(A)

Abram and Lot Separate

13 So Abram went up from Egypt^(A) to the Negev,^(B) with his wife and everything he had, and Lot^(C) went with him.

³ From the Negev^(A) he went from place to place until he came to Bethel,^(B) to the place between Bethel and Ai^(C) where his tent had been earlier

¹⁷ When Moses sent them to explore Canaan,^(A) he said, “Go up through the Negev^(B) and on into the hill country.^(C)

²² They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron,^(A) where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai,^(B) the descendants of Anak,^(C) lived. (Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)^(D)

²⁹ The Amalekites^(A) live in the Negev; the Hittites,^(B) Jebusites^(C) and Amorites^(D) live in the hill country;^(E) and the Canaanites^(F) live near the sea and along the Jordan.^(G)”

⁷ Then they went toward the fortress of Tyre^(A) and all the towns of the Hivites^(B) and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to Beersheba^(C) in the Negev^(D) of Judah.