Genesis 13
1 Ascendit ergo Abram de Ægypto, ipse et uxor eius, et omnia quæ habebat, et Lot cum eo ad australem plagam.
And Abram goes up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he has, and Lot with him) toward the south;
2 Erat autem dives valde in possessione auri et argenti.
and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
3 Reversusque est per iter, quo venerat, a meridie in Bethel usque ad locum ubi prius fixerat tabernaculum inter Bethel et Hai:
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 in loco altaris quod fecerat prius, et invocavit ibi nomen Domini.
to the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there Abram preaches in the Name of YHWH.
5 Sed et Lot qui erat cum Abram, fuerunt greges ovium, et armenta, et tabernacula.
And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there has been sheep and oxen and tents;
6 Nec poterat eos capere terra, ut habitarent simul: erat quippe substantia eorum multa, et nequibant habitare communiter.
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 Unde et facta est rixa inter pastores gregum Abram et Lot. Eo autem tempore Chananæus et Pherezæus habitabant in terra illa.
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 Dixit ergo Abram ad Lot: Ne quæso sit iurgium inter me et te, et inter pastores meos, et pastores tuos: fratres enim sumus.
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 Ecce universa terra coram te est: recede a me, obsecro: si ad sinistram ieris, ego dexteram tenebo: si tu dexteram elegeris, ego ad sinistram pergam.
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 Elevatis itaque Lot oculis, vidit omnem circa regionem Iordanis, quæ universa irrigabatur antequam subverteret Dominus Sodomam et Gomorrham, sicut paradisus Domini, et sicut Ægyptus venientibus in Segor.
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 Elegitque sibi Lot regionem circa Iordanem, et recessit ab Oriente: divisique sunt alterutrum a fratre suo.
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 habitavit in terra Chanaan: Lot vero moratus est in oppidis, quæ erant circa Iordanem, et habitavit in Sodomis.
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 Homines autem Sodomitæ pessimi erant, et peccatores coram Domino nimis.
and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before YHWH exceedingly.
14 Dixitque Dominus ad Abram, postquam divisus est ab eo Lot: Leva oculos tuos, et vide a loco, in quo nunc es, ad aquilonem et meridiem, ad orientem et occidentem.
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 Omnem terram, quam conspicis, tibi dabo, et semini tuo usque in sempiternum.
for the whole of the land which you are seeing, I give it to you and to your Seed for all time.
16 Faciamque semen tuum sicut pulverem terræ: si quis potest hominum numerare pulverem terræ, semen quoque tuum numerare poterit.
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 Surge, et perambula terram in longitudine, et in latitudine sua: quia tibi daturus sum eam.
rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to you I give it.”
18 Movens igitur tabernaculum suum Abram, venit et habitavit iuxta convallem Mambre, quæ est in Hebron: ædificavitque ibi altare Domino.
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.
