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Genesis 13:11
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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.  
11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other.
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.  
14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot ahad separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—bnorthward, southward, eastward, and westward;  
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Adam Clarke
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Genesis 13:11

Then Lot chose him all the plain - A little civility or good breeding is of great importance in the concerns of life. Lot either had none, or did not profit by it. He certainly should have left the choice to the patriarch, and should have been guided by his counsel; but he took his own way, trusting to his own judgment, and guided only by the sight of his eyes: he beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered, etc.; so he chose the land, without considering the character of the inhabitants, or what advantages or disadvantages it might afford him in spiritual things. This choice, as we shall see in the sequel, had nearly proved the ruin of his body, soul, and family.




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