Genesis 13:5–11

⁵Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, ⁶and the land could not support both of them living together because their possessions were so great that they could not live together. ⁷Thus strife arose between the herders of Abram’s livestock and the herders of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land.^*

⁸Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me and between your herders and my herders, for we are kindred.^{* 9}Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you 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.” ¹⁰Lot looked about him and saw that the plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar; this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.^{* 11}So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.