Genesis, 13

¹ Following that Aʹbram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the Negʹeb.

² And Aʹbram was heavily stocked with herds and silver and gold.

³ And he made his way from encampment to encampment out of the Negʹeb and to Bethʹel, to the place where his tent had been at first between Bethʹel and Aʹi,

⁴ to the place of the altar that he had made there originally; and Aʹbram proceeded to call there on^*1 the name of Jehovah.

⁵ Now Lot, who was going along with Aʹbram, also owned sheep and cattle and tents.

⁶ So the land did not allow for them to dwell all together, because their goods had become many and they were not able to dwell all together.

⁷ And a quarrel arose between the herders of Aʹbram’s livestock and the herders of Lot’s livestock; and at that time the Caʹnaan·ite and the Perʹiz·zite were dwelling in the land.

⁸ Hence Aʹbram said to Lot: “Please, do not let any quarreling continue between me and you and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we men are brothers.

⁹ Is not the whole land available to^*1 you? Please, separate from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right; but if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”

¹⁰ So Lot raised his eyes and saw the whole District^*1 of the Jordan, that all of it was a well-watered region before Jehovah brought Sodʹom and Go·morʹrah to ruin, like the garden^*2 of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as far as Zoʹar.^*3

¹¹ Then Lot chose for himself the whole District of the Jordan, and Lot moved his camp to the east. So they separated the one from the other.

¹² Aʹbram dwelt in the land of Caʹnaan, but Lot dwelt among the cities of the District. Finally he pitched tent near Sodʹom.

¹³ And the men of Sodʹom were bad and were gross sinners against Jehovah.

¹⁴ And Jehovah said to Aʹbram after Lot had separated from him: “Raise your eyes, please, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward^*1 and eastward and westward,^*2

¹⁵ because all the land at which you are looking, to you and to your seed I am going to give it until time indefinite.

¹⁶ And I will constitute your seed like the dust particles of the earth, so that, if a man could be able to count the dust particles of the earth, then your seed could be numbered.

¹⁷ Get up, go about in the land through its length and through its breadth, because to you I am going to give it.”

¹⁸ So Aʹbram continued to live in tents.^*1 Later on he came and dwelt among the big trees of Mamʹre, which are in Heʹbron; and there he proceeded to build an altar to Jehovah.