Genesis 13:4

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to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

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Canaan in the Patriarchal AgeCanaan during the patriarchal period, before the Israelite conquest.

The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.

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Abram returned from Egypt through the Negeb into Canaan to the altar between Bethel and Ai, in the central hill country; the Jordan Valley lay eastward, while Hebron was farther south. These places frame his renewed worship and later settlement in the land God promised him.

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Genesis 13:4 mentions Ai, Bethel, Canaan, Egypt, Hebron, Jordan Valley and Negeb.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato