13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the ①Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.
▷ ①I.e., South country
13:2 Now Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
13:3 And he went ①on his journeys from the ②Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
▷ ①Lit by his stages ②I.e., South country
13:4 to the place of the altar which he had made there previously; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
13:5 Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.
13:6 And the land could not ①support both of them ②while living together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.
▷ ①Lit bear ②Lit to live
13:7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.
13:8 So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are relatives!
13:9 Is the entire land not before you? Please separate from me; if you choose the left, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right, then I will go to the left.”
13:10 Lot raised his eyes and saw all the ①vicinity of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt ②going toward Zoar.
▷ ①Lit circle ②Lit as you go
13:11 So Lot chose for himself all the ①vicinity of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. So they separated from each other.
▷ ①Lit circle
13:12 Abram ①settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot ②settled in the cities of the ③vicinity of the Jordan, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.
▷ ①Lit dwelt ②Lit dwelt ③Lit circle
13:13 Now the men of Sodom were ①exceedingly wicked sinners against the LORD.
▷ ①Lit wicked and sinners exceedingly
13:14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now raise your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward, and eastward and westward;
13:15 for all the land which you see I will give to you and to your ①descendants forever.
▷ ①Lit seed
13:16 I will make your ①descendants as plentiful as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can count the dust of the earth, then your ②descendants could also be counted.
▷ ①Lit seed ②Lit seed
13:17 Arise, walk about in the land through its length and width; for I will give it to you.”
13:18 Then Abram moved his tent and came and lived by the ①oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron; and there he built an altar to the LORD.
▷ ①Or terebinths