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
south. 2 And
Abram was
very rich in
cattle, in
silver, and in
gold. 3 And he
went on his
journeys from the
south even to
Bethel, unto the
place where his
tent had
been at the
beginning, between
Bethel and
Hai; 4 Unto the
place of the
altar, which he had
made there at the
first: and there
Abram called on the
name of the
LORD. 5 And
Lot also, which
went with Abram, had
flocks, and
herds, and
tents. 6 And the
land was not able to
bear them, that they might
dwell together: for their
substance was
great, so that they
could not
dwell together. 7 And there was a
strife between the
herdmen of
Abram's cattle and the
herdmen of
Lot's cattle: and the
Canaanite and the
Perizzite dwelled then in the
land. 8 And
Abram said unto
Lot, Let there
be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my
herdmen and thy
herdmen; for
we be
brethren. 9 Is not the whole
land before
thee? separate
thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left
hand, then I will go to the
right; or if thou depart to the right
hand, then I will go to the
left.
10 And
Lot lifted
up his
eyes, and
beheld all the
plain of
Jordan, that it was well
watered every where,
before the
LORD destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah, even as the
garden of the
LORD, like the
land of
Egypt, as thou
comest unto
Zoar. 11 Then
Lot chose him all the
plain of
Jordan; and
Lot journeyed east: and they separated
themselves the
one from the
other. 12 Abram dwelled in the
land of
Canaan, and
Lot dwelled in the
cities of the
plain, and pitched his
tent toward Sodom. 13 But the
men of
Sodom were
wicked and
sinners before the
LORD exceedingly. 14 And the
LORD said unto
Abram, after that
Lot was
separated from him, Lift
up now thine
eyes, and
look from the
place where thou art
northward, and
southward, and
eastward, and
westward: 15 For all the
land which thou
seest, to thee will I give
it, and to thy
seed for ever. 16 And I will
make thy
seed as the
dust of the
earth: so
that if a
man can number the
dust of the
earth, then shall thy
seed also be
numbered.
17 Arise,
walk through the
land in the
length of it and in the
breadth of it; for I will
give it unto thee.
18 Then
Abram removed his
tent, and
came and
dwelt in the
plain of
Mamre, which is in
Hebron, and
built there an
altar unto the
LORD.