Genesis 13 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Abram and Lot

Gen 13:1And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south;

Gen 13:2and Abram is exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Gen 13:3And he goeth on his journeyings from the south, even unto Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the commencement, between Bethel and Hai --

Gen 13:4

Gen 13:4unto the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah.

Gen 13:5

Gen 13:5And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents;

Gen 13:6

Gen 13:6and the land hath not suffered them to dwell together, for their substance hath been much, and they have not been able to dwell together;

Gen 13:7

Gen 13:7and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite are then dwelling in the land.

Gen 13:8

Gen 13:8And Abram saith unto Lot, 'Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we are men -- brethren.

Gen 13:9

Gen 13:9Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.'

Gen 13:10

Gen 13:10And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it is all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,

Gen 13:11

Gen 13:11and Lot chooseth for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeyeth from the east, and they are parted -- a man from his companion;

Gen 13:12

Gen 13:12Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;

Gen 13:13

Gen 13:13and the men of Sodom are evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

Gen 13:14

Gen 13:14And Jehovah said unto Abram, after Lot's being parted from him, 'Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward;

Gen 13:15

Gen 13:15for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed -- to the age.

Gen 13:16

Gen 13:16And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered;

Gen 13:17

Gen 13:17rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'

Gen 13:18

Gen 13:18And Abram tenteth, and cometh, and dwelleth among the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and buildeth there an altar to Jehovah.

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

Genesis 13 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Abram and Lot

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