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Genesis
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English: World English Bible |
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Genesis 13 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. |
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Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. |
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He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, |
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to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh. |
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Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. |
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The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together. |
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There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time. |
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Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives. |
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Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left." |
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Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar. |
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So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other. |
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. |
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Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh. |
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Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, |
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for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever. |
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I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered. |
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Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you." |
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Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh. |
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