Genesis:13

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* Then Abram went up from Egypt , he and his wife and all that he had , and Lot with him , to the South . * Abram was very rich in livestock , in silver , and in gold . * And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel , to the place where his tent had been at the beginning , between Bethel and Ai , * to the place of the altar which he had made there at first . And there Abram called on the name of the LORD . * Lot also , who went with Abram , had flocks and herds and tents . * Now the land was not able to support them , that they might dwell together , for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together . * And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram 's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot 's livestock . The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land . * So Abram said to Lot , "Please let there be no strife between you and me , and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen ; for we are brethren . * Is not the whole land before you ? Please separate from me . If you take the left , then I will go to the right ; or , if you go to the right , then I will go to the left ." * And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan , that it was well watered everywhere (before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ) like the garden of the LORD , like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar . * Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan , and Lot journeyed east . And they separated from each other . * Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan , and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom . * But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the LORD . * And the LORD said to Abram , after Lot had separated from him : "Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are--northward , southward , eastward , and westward ; * for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever . * And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth ; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth , then your descendants also could be numbered . * Arise , walk in the land through its length and its width , for I give it to you ." * Then Abram moved his tent , and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre , which are in Hebron , and built an altar there to the LORD .

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