Genesis 13

“Abram Leaves Egypt”

1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. 2And Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. 3And he returned by the way that he came, from the south to Beth-el, to the place where he first pitched his tent between Beth-el and Ai,

He calleth upon the Name of the Lord.

4to the place of the altar, which he had made there at first; and there Abram called upon the name of the LORD. 5And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and livestock, and tents. 6Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their substance was great, such that they could not dwell together. 7And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. 8And Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brothers. 9Is not the whole land before you? Choose a different place from me: if you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.” 10So when Lot looked and saw the all the country about^a the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor^b.

Lot departeth from him.

11And so Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself; and Lot departed east; thus they separated one brother from the other. 12Abram stayed in the land of Canaan, and Lot went into the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

The wickedness of the Sodomites.

13Now the men of Sodom were wicked and exceedingly sinful before the LORD.

The promise made to Abram is renewed.

14And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had departed from him, “Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward: 15for all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed, forever. 16And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could number the sands of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered. 17Arise and walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you.”

Abram buildeth an altar to the Lord.

18So Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks^a of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.