Gen 13
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And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with
him, into the wilderness.
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And Abram was very rich in cattle, and silver, and gold.
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And he went to the place whence he came, into the wilderness as far as Baethel, as
far as the place where his tent was before, between Baethel and Aggai,
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to the place of the altar, Alex. where he made or pitched his tent which he built there at first, and Abram there called on
the name of the Lord.
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And Lot who went out with Abram had sheep, and oxen, and Alex. cattle tents.
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And the land was not large enough for them to live together, because their possessions
were great; and the land was not large enough for them to live together.
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And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle, and the herdmen of Lot’s
cattle, and the Chananites and the Pherezites then inhabited the land.
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And Abram said to Lot, Let there not be a strife between me and you, and between my
herdmen and your herdmen, for we are Gr. men, brethren brethren.
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Behold! is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me; if you go to
the left, I will go to the right, and if you go to the right, I will go to the left.
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And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about Jordan, that
it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, as the garden of the
Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until you come to Zogora.
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And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east,
and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan.
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And Lot dwelt in a city of the neighbouring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.
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But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.
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And God said to Abram after Lot was separated from him, Look up with your eyes, and
behold from the place where you now art northward and southward, and eastward and
seaward;
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for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your seed for ever.
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And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth; if any one is able to number
the Gr. sand dust of the earth, then shall your seed be numbered.
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Arise and traverse the land, both in the length of it and in the breadth; for to you
will I give it, and to your seed for ever.
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And Abram having Or, having dwelt at a distance removed his tent, came and dwelt by the oak of Mambre, which was in Chebrom,
and
he there built an altar to the Lord.