Genesis Chapter 13 Back Next{13:1}
Abram went up out of
Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and
Lot with him, into the South.
{13:2} Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in
gold.
{13:3} He went on his journeys from the South even to
Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and
Ai,
{13:4} to the place of the
altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
{13:5} Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
{13:6} The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
{13:7} There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the
Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
{13:8} Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
{13:9} Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
{13:10} Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the
plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
{13:11} So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
{13:12} Abram lived in the land of
Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
{13:13} Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
{13:14} Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
{13:15} for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
{13:16} I will make your offspring as the
dust of the
earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
{13:17} Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its
breadth; for I will give it to you."
{13:18} Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of
Mamre, which are in
Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
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