Chapter 13
1So Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife and all his possessions—into the Negev—and Lot [was] with him.
2And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
3From the Negev he journeyed from place to place until he came toward Bethel to the place where his tent had formerly been pitched between Bethel and Ai
4to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of AO.
5Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
6But the land was unable to support [both of] them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.
7And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time, the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
8So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.
9Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered (This was before AO destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of AO like the land of Egypt all the way to Zoar.
11So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan [and] set out toward the east. And [Abram and Lot] parted company.
12Abram lived in the land of Canaan but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom.
13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning against AO greatly.
14After Lot had departed, AO said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are to the north and south and east and west
15for all the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever.
16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
17Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
18So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron where he built an altar to AO.