Genesis 13
1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he
and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the wilderness.
2 And Abram was very rich in cattle,
and silver, and gold. 3 And he went
to the place whence he came, into the wilderness as
far as Bæthel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Bæthel
and Aggai, 4 to the place of the
altar,
aAlex. where he made or pitched his tent.which he built there at first, and Abram there called on the name of the
Lord. 5 And Lot who went out with
Abram had sheep, and oxen,
bAlex. cattle.and tents. 6 And the land was not
large enough for them to live together, because their possessions were great;
and the land was not large enough for them to live together.
7 And there was a strife between the
herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen of Lot's cattle, and the Chananites
and the Pherezites then inhabited the land.
8 And Abram said to Lot, Let there not
be a strife between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen, for
we are
cGr. men, brethren.brethren. 9 Lo! is not the whole land
before thee? Separate thyself from me; if thou
goest to the left, I will go to the right, and if
thou goest to the right, I will go to the left.
10 And Lot having lifted up his eyes,
observed all the country round about Jordan, that it was all watered, before
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land
of Egypt, until thou come to Zogora.
11 And Lot chose for himself all the
country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each
from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan.
12 And Lot dwelt in a city of the
neighbouring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.
13 But the men of Sodom were evil,
and exceedingly sinful before God.
14 And God said to Abram after Lot
was separated from him, Look up with thine eyes, and behold from the place
where thou now art northward and southward, and eastward and seaward;
15 for all the land which thou seest,
I will give it to thee and to thy seed for ever.
16 And I will make thy seed like the
dGr. sand.dust of the earth; if any one is able to number the dust of the earth, then
shall thy seed be numbered. 17 Arise
and traverse the land, both in the length of it and in the breadth; for to
thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
18 And Abram having
eOr, having dwelt at a distance.removed his tent, came and dwelt by the oak of Mambre, which was in Chebrom,
and he there built an altar to the Lord.