Genesis 13

1 So Abram left Egypt and went back into the Negev along with Sarai, Lot, and everyone with them, as well as all their possessions.

Then Abram went vp from Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him toward the South.

2 Abram was very rich, having many herds of livestock and a great deal of silver and gold.

And Abram was very rich in cattell, in siluer and in golde.

3 He left the Negev and traveled in stages to Bethel, back to the place where he'd camped before, between Bethel and Ai.

And he went on his iourney from ye South toward Beth-el, to the place where his tent had bene at ye beginning, betweene Beth-el and Haai,

4 This was where he'd first built an altar. He worshiped the Lord there as he had done previously.

Vnto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the Lord.

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

And Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheepe, and cattell and tentes,

6 so much so that the available land couldn't support both of them—they had so much livestock they couldn't stay together anymore.

So that the land coulde not beare them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they coulde not dwell together.

7 Abram's and Lot's herdsmen were arguing, and in addition the Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.

Also there was debate betweene ye heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lots cattell. (and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.)

8 So Abram said to Lot, “Please don't let's have arguments between us, or between our herdsmen, because we're family.

Then saide Abram vnto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, betweene thee and me, neither betweene mine heardmen and thine heardmen: for we be brethren.

9 You see all this land that's available right in front of you? We have to split up. If you choose to go to the left, I'll go to the right. If you choose to go to the right, I'll go to the left.”

Is not the whole land before thee? depart I pray thee from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will goe to the right: or if thou goe to the right hand, then I will take the left.

10 Lot looked over the whole Jordan valley towards Zoar, and saw that it was well-watered, looking like the Garden of Eden, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

So when Lot lifted vp his eyes, he saw that all the plaine of Iorden was watered euery where: (for before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorah, it was as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest vnto Zoar)

11 So Lot chose the whole Jordan valley and went east, and the two separated from each other.

Then Lot chose vnto him all the plaine of Iorden, and tooke his iourney from the East: and they departed the one from the other.

12 Abram went to live in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled down among the towns in the valley, setting up his tents near Sodom.

Abram dwelled in the lande of Canaan, and Lot abode in the cities of the plaine, and pitched his tent euen to Sodom.

13 (The people of Sodom were very wicked, committing terrible sins that offended the Lord.)

Now the men of Sodom were wicked and exceeding sinners against the Lord.

14 After separating from Lot, the Lord told Abram, “Look around you from where you're standing, to the north, south, east, and west.

Then the Lord saide vnto Abram, (after that Lot was departed from him) Lift vp thine eyes nowe, and looke from the place where thou art, Northward, and Southward, and Eastwarde, and Westward:

15 I'm giving all this land you see to you and your descendants forever.

For all the land, which thou seest, will I giue vnto thee and to thy seede for euer,

16 You will have so many descendants that they'll be like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count dust then they could count the number of your descendants!

And I will make thy seede, as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede be numbred.

17 Go and walk through the whole land in all directions because I'm giving it to you.”

Arise, walke through the land, in ye length thereof, and breadth thereof: for I will giue it vnto thee.

18 So Abram went to live at Hebron, setting up his tents among the oaks at Mamre, where he built an altar to the Lord.

Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelled in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and builded there an altar vnto ye Lord.