Genesis 13
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Genesis13
1: From Egypt Abram went up into Negeb, he and his wife and all that he possessed, and Lot went with him.
2: Abram had become very rich in cattle and in silver and in gold.
3: From the Negeb he journeyed by stages towards Bethel and Ai where he had earlier pitched his tent,
4: and where he had previously set up an altar and invoked the Lord by name.
5: Since Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also possessed sheep and cattle and tents,
6: the land could not support them while they were together. They had so much livestock that they could not settle in the same district,
7: and quarrels arose between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s (The Canaanites and the Perizzites were then living in the land).
8; Abram said to Lot, “There must e no quarreling between us, or my herdsmen and yours; for we are close kinsmen.
9: The whole country is there in front of you. Let us part company: if you go north, I shall go south; if you go south, I shall go north.”
10: Lot looked around and saw how well watered the whole plain of Jordan was; all the way to Zoar it was like the garden of the Egypt. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
11: So Lot chose all the Jordan plain and took the road to the east. They parted company.
12: Abram settled in Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the plain and pitched his tent near Sodom.
13: Now the men of Sodom in their wickedness had committed monstrous sins against the Lord.
14: After Lot and Abram had parted, the Lord said to Abram, ‘Look around form where you are towards the north, south, east and west:
15: all the land you see I shall give to you and your descendents forever.
16: I shall make your descendent countless as the dust of the earth; only if the specks of dust on the ground could be counted could your descendents be counted.
17: Now go through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.’
18: Abram moved his tent and settled by the terebinths of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.