Genesis - 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.

2 - And Abram - was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

3 - 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 - ;

4 - Unto the place of the altar, which he had made 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.

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.

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 - .

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:

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.