Genesis 13
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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, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between
Bethel and Hai;
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- 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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