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Genesis 13:1-18 — Abram and Lot Separate

Gen.13.1-18

¹So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him. ²Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold. ³He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, ⁴to the place of the altar that he had made there at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the LORD. ⁵Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. ⁶And the land could not support them dwelling together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. ⁷And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land. ⁸So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are kinsmen. ⁹Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right; and if you go to the right, then I will go to the left." ¹⁰And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well-watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go toward Zoar. ¹¹So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other. ¹²Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, while Lot dwelt among the cities of the plain and pitched his tent as far as Sodom. ¹³Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD. ¹⁴The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes now and look 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 offspring forever. ¹⁶I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could also be counted. ¹⁷Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you." ¹⁸So Abram moved his tent and came to dwell by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.

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