13:3 And he journeyed from place to place 1 from the Negev as far as Bethel. 2 He returned 3 to the place where he had pitched his tent 4 at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai. 13:4 This was the place where he had first built the altar, 5 and there Abram worshiped the Lord. 6
13:5 Now Lot, who was traveling 7 with Abram, also had 8 flocks, herds, and tents. 13:6 But the land could 9 not support them while they were living side by side. 10 Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live 11 alongside one another. 13:7 So there were quarrels 12 between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. 13 (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.) 14
13:8 Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives. 15 13:9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go 16 to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”
13:10 Lot looked up and saw 17 the whole region 18 of the Jordan. He noticed 19 that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated 20 Sodom and Gomorrah) 21 like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, 22 all the way to Zoar. 13:11 Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled 23 toward the east.
So the relatives separated from each other. 24 13:12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain 25 and pitched his tents next to Sodom. 13:13 (Now 26 the people 27 of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.) 28
13:14 After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, 29 “Look 30 from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west. 13:15 I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants 31 forever. 13:16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted. 32 13:17 Get up and 33 walk throughout 34 the land, 35 for I will give it to you.”
13:18 So Abram moved his tents and went to live 36 by the oaks 37 of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.