Genesis 13:3-4

And he went on his journeys . Literally, in his journeyings or stations!cf. Genesis 11:2 ; Exodus 17:1 ; Numbers 10:6 , Numbers 10:12 ). The renderings καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὅθεν η}lqen ( LXX .) and reversus est per iter quo venerat (Vulgate) imply without warrant that he used the same camping grounds in his ascent which he had previously occupied in his descent. From the south even to Bethel (vide Genesis 12:8 ), unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning. Before his emigration into Egypt, i.e. not to Shechem, the site of his first altar, where probably he had not encamped for any length of time, if at all, but to a spot between Bethel and Ai (the exact situation being more minutely described as) unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first . After entering the promised land. In reality it was the second altar he had erected ( vide Genesis 12:7 , Genesis 12:8 ). And there Abram called on the name of the Lord. Professed the true and pure worship of God (Calvin); preached and taught his family and Canaanitish neighbors the true religion (Luther). Vide Genesis 12:8 ; Genesis 4:26 .