Genesis 13

¹And Abram came up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that was his, and Lot with him, to the south.

²And Abram was very heavy with cattle, with silver, and with gold.

³And he went on his journeys, from the south and until Beth el, until the place where his tent had been previously, between Beth el and between Ai.

⁴To the place of the altar that he had made at first, and Abram called there in the name of the Lord.

⁵And also Lot, who went with Abram, had flocks and cattle and tents.

⁶And the land did not bear them to dwell together, for their possessions were many, and they could not dwell together.

⁷And there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and between the herdsmen of Lot's cattle, and the Canaanites and the Perizzites were then dwelling in the land.

⁸And Abram said to Lot, ‘Please let there be no quarrel between me and between you and between my herdsmen and between your herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.

⁹Is not all the land before you? Please part from me; if [you go] left, I will go right, and if [you go] right, I will go left.’

¹⁰And Lot raised his eyes, and he saw the entire plain of the Jordan, that it was entirely watered; before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar.

¹¹And Lot chose for himself the entire plain of the Jordan, and Lot traveled from the east, and they parted from one another.

¹²Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and he pitched his tents until Sodom.

¹³And the people of Sodom were very evil and sinful against the Lord.

¹⁴And the Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, ‘Please raise your eyes and see, from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward.

¹⁵For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your seed to eternity.

¹⁶And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth, so that if a man will be able to count the dust of the earth, so will your seed be counted.

¹⁷Rise, walk in the land, to its length and to its breadth, for I will give it to you.’

¹⁸And Abram pitched his tents, and he came, and he dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.