Genesis 13
1 Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him.
2 Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
3 He traveled by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been before, between Bethel and Ai,
4 to the place of the altar he had made there at the beginning. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
5 Lot, who traveled with Abram, also had sheep, cattle, and tents.
6 The land could not support them living together, because they had so many possessions that they could not live together.
7 There was a quarrel between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and Perizzites were living in the land at that time.
8 Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no quarrel between me and you, or between my herdsmen and yours, because we are brothers.
9 Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
10 Lot looked up and saw the whole Jordan plain: it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar.
11 Lot chose the whole Jordan plain for himself and set out eastward; so they separated from each other.
12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived in the cities of the plain and pitched his tents as far as Sodom.
13 The men of Sodom were wicked and great sinners against the LORD.
14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Look up and look around from where you are: north, south, east, and west.
15 All the land you see, I will give to you and your descendants forever.
16 I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.
17 Get up and walk through the land, lengthwise and widthwise, because I will give it to you.”
18 Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.
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