Genesis 13
1 And Abram goes up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he has, and Lot with him) toward the south;
亞伯蘭帶着他的妻子與羅得，並一切所有的，都從埃及上南地去。
2 and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
亞伯蘭的金、銀、牲畜極多。
3 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—
他從南地漸漸往伯特利去，到了伯特利和艾的中間，就是從前支搭帳棚的地方，
4 to the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there Abram preaches in the Name of YHWH.
也是他起先築壇的地方；他又在那裏求告耶和華的名。
5 And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there has been sheep and oxen and tents;
與亞伯蘭同行的羅得也有牛群、羊群、帳棚。
6 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;
那地容不下他們；因為他們的財物甚多，使他們不能同居。
7 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.
當時，迦南人與比利洗人在那地居住。亞伯蘭的牧人和羅得的牧人相爭。
8 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.
亞伯蘭就對羅得說：「你我不可相爭，你的牧人和我的牧人也不可相爭，因為我們是骨肉。
9 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.”
遍地不都在你眼前嗎？請你離開我：你向左，我就向右；你向右，我就向左。」
10 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,
羅得舉目看見約旦河的全平原，直到瑣珥，都是滋潤的，那地在耶和華未滅所多瑪、蛾摩拉以先如同耶和華的園子，也像埃及地。
11 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;
於是羅得選擇約旦河的全平原，往東遷移；他們就彼此分離了。
12 Abram has dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot has dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and moves [his] tent to Sodom;
亞伯蘭住在迦南地，羅得住在平原的城邑，漸漸挪移帳棚，直到所多瑪。
13 and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before YHWH exceedingly.
所多瑪人在耶和華面前罪大惡極。
14 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;
羅得離別亞伯蘭以後，耶和華對亞伯蘭說：「從你所在的地方，你舉目向東西南北觀看；
15 for the whole of the land which you are seeing, I give it to you and to your Seed for all time.
凡你所看見的一切地，我都要賜給你和你的後裔，直到永遠。
16 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;
我也要使你的後裔如同地上的塵沙那樣多，人若能數算地上的塵沙才能數算你的後裔。
17 rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to you I give it.”
你起來，縱橫走遍這地，因為我必把這地賜給你。」
18 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.
亞伯蘭就搬了帳棚，來到希伯崙幔利的橡樹那裏居住，在那裏為耶和華築了一座壇。
