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Chapter 13 |
| 1 | And Abram went
up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into
the south. |
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| And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold. |
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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; |
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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: |
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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. |
