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Abram, having returned from Egypt to the south of Canaan with his wife and property uninjured, through the gracious protection of God, proceeded with Lot לְמַסָּעָיו “according to his journeys” (lit., with the repeated breaking up of his camp, required by a nomad life; on נָסַע to break up a tent, to remove, see Exo 12:37) into the neighbourhood of Bethel and Ai, where he had previously encamped and built an altar (Gen 12:8), that he might there call upon the name of the Lord again. That וַיּקְרָא (Gen 13:4) is not a continuation of the relative clause, but a resumption of the main sentence, and therefore corresponds with וַיֵּלֶךְ (Gen 13:3), “he went...and called upon the name of the Lord there,” has been correctly concluded by Delitzsch from the repetition of the subject Abram.