Genesis, 13

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

² Aʹbram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.

³ He camped in one place after another as he traveled from the Negʹeb to Bethʹel, until he arrived at the place where his tent had been between Bethʹel and Aʹi,

⁴ to the place where he had previously built an altar. There Aʹbram called on the name of Jehovah.

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

⁶ So the land did not allow for all of them to stay in the same place; their goods had become so many that they could no longer dwell together.

⁷ As a result, a quarrel arose between the herders of Aʹbram’s livestock and the herders of Lot’s livestock. (At that time the Caʹnaan·ites and the Perʹiz·zites were dwelling in the land.)

⁸ So Aʹbram said to Lot: “Please, there should be no quarreling between me and you and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.

⁹ Is not the whole land available to 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 that the whole district of the Jordan was a well-watered region (before Jehovah destroyed Sodʹom and Go·morʹrah), like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as far as Zoʹar.

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

¹² Aʹbram lived in the land of Caʹnaan, but Lot lived among the cities of the district. Finally he set up his tent near Sodʹom.

¹³ Now the men of Sodʹom were wicked, gross sinners against Jehovah.

¹⁴ Jehovah said to Aʹbram, after Lot had separated from him: “Raise your eyes, please, and look from the place where you are, to the north and south, east and west,

¹⁵ because all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring^*1 as a lasting possession.

¹⁶ And I will make your offspring^*1 like the dust particles of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust particles of the earth, then your offspring^*2 could be counted.

¹⁷ Get up, travel through the length and breadth of the land, for to you I am going to give it.”

¹⁸ So Aʹbram continued to live in tents. Later he came and dwelled among the big trees of Mamʹre, which are in Hebʹron, and there he built an altar to Jehovah.