Genesis 13

1 So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.

And Abram goes up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he has, and Lot with him) toward the south;

2 And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.

and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

3 From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,

And he goes on his journeys from the south, even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the commencement, between Bethel and Hai—

4 to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

to the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there Abram preaches in the Name of YHWH.

5 Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there has been sheep and oxen and tents;

6 But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.

and the land has not permitted them to dwell together, for their substance has been much, and they have not been able to dwell together;

7 And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.

and there is a strife between those feeding Abram’s livestock and those feeding Lot’s livestock; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite [are] then dwelling in the land.

8 So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.

And Abram says to Lot, “Please let there not be strife between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we [are] men—brothers.

9 Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

Is not all the land before you? Please be parted from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.”

10 And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

And Lot lifts up his eyes, and sees the whole circuit of the Jordan that it [is] all a watered country (before YHWH’s destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as YHWH’s garden, as the land of Egypt), in your coming toward Zoar,

11 So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

and Lot chooses for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeys from the east, and they are parted—a man from his companion;

12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Abram has dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot has dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and moves [his] tent to Sodom;

13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before YHWH exceedingly.

14 After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

And YHWH said to Abram, after Lot’s being parted from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you [are], northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward;

15 for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

for the whole of the land which you are seeing, I give it to you and to your Seed for all time.

16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

And I have set your seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even your seed is numbered;

17 Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”

rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to you I give it.”

18 So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

And Abram moves [his] tent, and comes, and dwells among the oaks of Mamre, which [are] in Hebron, and builds there an altar to YHWH.