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To show Abraham's journey from between Bethel and Ai to Egypt, back to Bethel, and to Hebron.

To show where Canaan was in relation to the Mediterranean Sea and Egypt.
To show where Bethel and Ai were in relation to each other. ? To show where the Negev and Shur were in relation to Canaan and Egypt.
? To show where the Jordan River was in relation to Canaan. ? To show where Sodom and Hebron were in relation to Bethel and the Jordan River.

Gen 12:9 Then Abram continued journeying, going toward the Negev.
Gen 12:10 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down into Egypt to stay,
Gen 13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt and went into the Negev,
Gen 13:3 He continued on his journey from the Negev to Bethel,

Gen 13:10 So Lot looked around, and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere all the way to Zoar, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt. This was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Gen 13:11 So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan and traveled east, Gen 13:12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived among the cities of the plain. He set up his tents as far away as Sodom.

Gen 13:18 So Abram picked up his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there built an altar to Yahweh.

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14:15 He divided his men against them at night and attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus. 14:18 Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. (It was a long time before I realized that Melchizedek king of Salem and the king of Sodom were two different people -- that "Salem" and "Sodom" were two different places.)

The map "Abraham's_Journey_Part_1" shows how both rivers.
Gen 15:15 from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates

Gen 18 (Abraham was still living by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron)

18:20 Then Yahweh said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and because their sin is so serious,

Gen 20:1 Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He was a foreigner living in Gerar.

Gen 22:2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah.

Gen 22:19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they departed and went together to Beersheba, and he lived at Beersheba.

Gen 23:2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan.