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Genesis 13
1 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, unto the place where his
tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
4
Unto the place of the altar, which he had make 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
substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
7 And
there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of
Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
8 And
Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee,
and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
9 Is
not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou
wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the
right hand, then I will go to the left.
10 And
Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well
watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the
garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
11
Then Lot chose him 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 wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
14 And
the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now
thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward,
and eastward, and westward:
15 For
all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for
ever.
16 And
I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the
dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
17
Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for
I will give it unto thee.
18
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is
in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.
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