Genesis 13

Abram Inherits Canaan

13Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and ^aLot with him, ^bto the ¹South. ^2cAbram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. ³And he went on his journey ^dfrom the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, ⁴to the ^eplace of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram ^fcalled on the name of the Lord.

⁵Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. ⁶Now ^gthe land was not able to ²support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. ⁷And there was ^hstrife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. ⁱThe Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.

⁸So Abram said to Lot, ^j“Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. ^9kIs not the whole land before you? Please ^lseparate from me. ^mIf you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”

¹⁰And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all ⁿthe plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord ^odestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) ^plike the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward ^qZoar. ¹¹Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other. ¹²Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot ^rdwelt in the cities of the plain and ^spitched his tent even as far as Sodom. ¹³But the men of Sodom ^twere exceedingly wicked and ^usinful against the Lord.

¹⁴And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot ^vhad separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—^wnorthward, southward, eastward, and westward; ¹⁵for all the land which you see ^xI give to you and ^yyour ³descendants forever. ¹⁶And ^zI will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. ¹⁷Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”

^18aThen Abram moved his tent, and went and ^bdwelt by ⁴the terebinth trees of Mamre, ^cwhich are in Hebron, and built an ^daltar there to the Lord.