9 ^aIs not the whole land before you? Please ^bseparate from me. ^cIf you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”  ‡

10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all ^athe plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord ^bdestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) ^clike the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward ^dZoar.  ‡

12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot ^adwelt in the cities of the plain and ^bpitched his tent even as far as Sodom.  ‡

13 But the men of Sodom ^awere exceedingly wicked and ^bsinful against the Lord.  ‡