[1] Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with
him, into the South. [2] Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold. [3] 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 Ai, [4]
to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There
Abram called on the name of Yahweh. [5] Lot also, who went with Abram, had
flocks, and herds, and tents. [6] The land was not able to bear them, that
they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could
not live together. [7] There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram`s
cattle and the herdsmen of Lot`s cattle: and the Canaanite and the
Perizzite lived then in the land. [8] Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there
be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen;
for we are relatives. [9] Isn`t the whole land before you? Please separate
yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right.
Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left." [10] Lot
lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well
watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the
garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. [11] So Lot
chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot journeyed east, and they
separated themselves the one from the other. [12] Abram lived in the land
of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as
far as Sodom. [13] Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners
against Yahweh. [14] Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from
him, "Now, lift up 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 to you, and to your offspring forever. [16] I
will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can
number the dust of the earth, then your seed may 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 to you." [18] Abram moved his tent, and came and lived
by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to
Yahweh.
