³From the Negev^w he went from place to place until he came to Bethel,^x to the place between Bethel and Ai^y where his tent had been earlier ⁴and where he had first built an altar.^z There Abram called on the name of the Lord.^a

⁵Now Lot,^b who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. ⁶But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.^c ⁷And quarreling^d arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites^e and Perizzites^f were also living in the land^g at that time.

⁸So Abram said to Lot,^h “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me,ⁱ or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.^j ⁹Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”^k

¹⁰Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain^l of the Jordan toward Zoar^m was well watered, like the garden of the Lord,ⁿ like the land of Egypt.^o (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom^p and Gomorrah.)^q

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Cross references

uSee Ge 12:5; 26:13; Pr 10:22
v Ge 32:15; Job 1:3; 42:12
wSee Ge 12:9
xSee Ge 12:8
y Jos 7:2
zSee Ge 12:7
aSee Ge 4:26
bSee Ge 11:27
cSee Ge 12:5; 33:9; 36:7
d Ge 26:20, 21; Nu 20:3
eSee Ge 10:18
f Ge 15:20; 34:30; Ex 3:8; Jdg 1:4
g Ge 12:6; 34:30
hSee Ge 11:27
i Pr 15:18; 20:3
j Ge 19:9; Ex 2:14; Nu 16:13; Ps 133:1
k Ge 20:15; 34:10; 47:6; Jer 40:4
l 1 Ki 7:46; 2 Ch 4:17
m Ge 14:2; 19:22, 30; Nu 13:29; 33:48; Dt 34:3; Isa 15:5; Jer 48:34
n Ge 2:8–10; Isa 51:3; Eze 31:8–9
o Ge 46:7
p Dt 29:23; Job 39:6; Ps 107:34; Jer 4:26
q Ge 14:8; 19:17–29