Genesis 13 / 50
- 1So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
- 2Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
- 3From 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
- 4and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD .
- 5Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
- 6But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
- 7And quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
- 8So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
- 9Is 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."
- 10Lot 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.)
- 11So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
- 12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
- 13Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD .
- 14The 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.
- 15All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.
- 16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.
- 17Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you."
- 18So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD .