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And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. ² And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

³ And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai, ⁴ to the place of the altar, which he had made    there at the first; and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.

⁵ And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

⁶ And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their property and goods were great, so that they could not dwell together. ⁷ And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle; and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled then in the land.

⁸ And Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brothers. ⁹ Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself, I pray you, from me. If you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

¹⁰ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar. ¹¹ Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves, the one from the other. ¹² Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. ¹³ But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners before the Lord.

¹⁴ And the Lord said to Abram, after that Lot was separated from him,

“Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward; ¹⁵ for all the land which you see, I will give it to you, and to your seed forever. ¹⁶ And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then will your seed also be numbered. ¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the width of it; for I will give it to you.”

¹⁸ Then Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.

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Genesis 13

The King Version (KING)

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