13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him. |
13:2 Now Abram grew very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold. |
13:3 He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, |
13:4 to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD. |
13:5 Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. |
13:6 And the land could not sustain them while dwelling together, for their possessions had become so great that they could not remain together. |
13:7 And there grew strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land. |
13:8 So Abram said to Lot, "Please let no strife arise between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we have kinship. |
13:9 "Look at the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left." |
13:10 Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all of the valley of the Jordan, that it seemed well- watered everywhere--this happenned before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah-- like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar. |
13:11 So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other. |
13:12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom. |
13:13 Now the men of Sodom acted wicked exceedingly and sinners against the LORD. |
13:14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, " Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you stand, northward and southward and eastward and westward; |
13:15 for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever. |
13:16 "I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then people can also number your descendants . |
13:17 "Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you." |
13:18 Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which grow in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD. |