Genesis 13
New International Version - Genesis 13 << | >> 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. 13:2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. 13:3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier 13:4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord. 13:5 Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 13:6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. 13:7 And quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time. 13:8 So Abram said to Lot, 'Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers. 13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left.' 13:10 Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) 13:11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: 13:12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13:13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord. 13:14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, 'Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. 13:15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 13:16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 13:17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.' 13:18 So Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.