Genesis 13
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And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and
all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the *south; 2 and
Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 3 And he goeth on his journeyings from the
south, even unto Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the
commencement, between Bethel and Hai--4 unto the place of the altar which he
made there at the first, and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah. 5
And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and
tents; 6 and the land hath not suffered them to dwell together, for their
substance hath been much, and they have not been able to dwell together; 7 and
there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's
cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite [are]
then dwelling in the land. 8 And Abram saith unto
Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my
shepherds and thy shepherds, for we [are] men--brethren. 9 Is not all the land
before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the
right; and if to the right, then I to the left.' 10 And Lot lifteth
up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan
that it [is] all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and
Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of *Egypt,) in thy
coming toward Zoar, 11 and Lot chooseth
for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeyeth
from the east, and they are parted--a man from his companion; 12 Abram hath
dwelt in the land of *Canaan,
and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth
unto Sodom; 13 and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before Jehovah *exceedingly. 14
And Jehovah said unto Abram, after Lot's being parted from him, `Lift up, I
pray thee, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou [art], northward, and
southward, and eastward, and westward; 15 for the whole of the land which thou
are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed--to the age. 16 And I have set
thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of
the earth, even thy seed is numbered; 17 rise, go up and down through the land,
to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.' 18 And Abram tenteth, and cometh, and dwelleth
among the oaks of Mamre, which [are] in Hebron, and buildeth there an altar to Jehovah.