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Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were living then in the land. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if <i>to</i> the left, then I will go to the right; or if <i>to</i> the right, then I will go to the left.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—<i>this was</i> before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So Lot chose for himself all the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived in the cities of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>valley and moved his tents as far as Sodom. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now the men of Sodom were evil and sinners, exceedingly so, against Yahweh. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your seed forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your seed can also be numbered. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Abram moved his tent and came and lived by the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to Yahweh.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> South country<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>by his stages</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> South country<br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>bear</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>to dwell</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>circle</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>circle</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Lit <i>circle</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>terebinths</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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