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Genesis 13 :: New International Version (NIV)

Abram and Lot Separate

Gen 13:1

Gen 13:1So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.

Gen 13:2

Gen 13:2Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

Gen 13:3

Gen 13:3From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier

Gen 13:4

Gen 13:4and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Gen 13:5

Gen 13:5Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

Gen 13:6

Gen 13:6But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.

Gen 13:7

Gen 13:7And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.

Gen 13:8

Gen 13:8So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.

Gen 13:9

Gen 13:9Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”

Gen 13:10

Gen 13:10Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Gen 13:11

Gen 13:11So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

Gen 13:12

Gen 13:12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

Gen 13:13

Gen 13:13Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Gen 13:14

Gen 13:14The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.

Gen 13:15

Gen 13:15All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring[fn] forever.

Gen 13:16

Gen 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.

Gen 13:17

Gen 13:17Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

Gen 13:18

Gen 13:18So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the LORD.
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