13:18 So Abram moved his tents and went to live 1 by the oaks 2 of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.
1 tn Heb “he came and lived.”
2 tn Or “terebinths.”
3 tn Heb “Sarah.” The proper name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“she”) for stylistic reasons.
4 sn Mourn…weep. The description here is of standard mourning rites (see K. A. Kitchen, NBD3 149-50). They would have been carried out in the presence of the corpse, probably in Sarah’s tent. So Abraham came in to mourn; then he rose up to go and bury his dead (v. 3).