GE-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.

GE-13:2  And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in

gold.

GE-13:3  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;

GE-13:4  Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at

the first:

and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

GE-13:5  And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and

herds, and

tents.

GE-13:6  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.

GE-13:7  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.

GE-13:8  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.

GE-13:9  [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.

GE-13:10  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.

GE-13:11  Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot

journeyed east:

and they separated themselves the one from the other.

GE-13:12  Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled

in the cities

of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom.

GE-13:13  But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before

the LORD

exceedingly.

GE-13:14  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:

GE-13:15  For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give

it, and to

thy seed for ever.

GE-13:16  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.

GE-13:17  Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and

in the breadth

of it; for I will give it unto thee.

GE-13:18  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.

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