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Abram and Lot Separate
1 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;
4 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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