13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
13:2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
13:3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
13:4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
13:5 Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
13:6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
13:7 And quarreling arose between Abram’s herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
13:8 So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
13:10 Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
13:11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
13:12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
13:13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
13:14 The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.
13:15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.
13:16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
13:17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”
13:18 So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negev.
13:2 And Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.
13:3 And he continued on his journey from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
13:4 To the place of the altar, which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.
13:5 And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
13:6 And the land could not support them that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.
13:7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot s livestock. And at that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelt in the land.
13:8 And Abram said to Lot, Let there please be no strife between me and you and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.
13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.
13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the entire plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere ? this was before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ? like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
13:11 So Lot chose for himself the entire plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves from each other.
13:12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13:13 Now the men of Sodom were very wicked and sinful toward Jehovah.
13:14 And Jehovah said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, Now lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
13:15 For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your seed forever.
13:16 And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed can also be numbered.
13:17 Rise up; walk through the land according to its length and its breadth, for I will give it to you.
13:18 And Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to Jehovah.