Genesis 13

1 ascendit ergo Abram de Aegypto ipse et uxor eius et omnia quae habebat et Loth cum eo ad australem plagam

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

2 erat autem dives valde in possessione argenti et auri

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

3 reversusque est per iter quo venerat a meridie in Bethel usque ad locum ubi prius fixerat tabernaculum inter Bethel et Ai

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,

4 in loco altaris quod fecerat prius et invocavit ibi nomen Domini

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

5 sed et Loth qui erat cum Abram fuerunt greges ovium et armenta et tabernacula

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

6 nec poterat eos capere terra ut habitarent simul erat quippe substantia eorum multa et non quibant habitare communiter

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.

7 unde et facta est rixa inter pastores gregum Abram et Loth eo autem tempore Chananeus et Ferezeus habitabant in illa terra

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.

8 dixit ergo Abram ad Loth ne quaeso sit iurgium inter me et te et inter pastores meos et pastores tuos fratres enim sumus

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.

9 ecce universa terra coram te est recede a me obsecro si ad sinistram ieris ego ad dexteram tenebo si tu dexteram elegeris ego ad sinistram pergam

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.”

10 elevatis itaque Loth oculis vidit omnem circa regionem Iordanis quae universa inrigabatur antequam subverteret Dominus Sodomam et Gomorram sicut paradisus Domini et sicut Aegyptus venientibus in Segor

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.)

11 elegitque sibi Loth regionem circa Iordanem et recessit ab oriente divisique sunt alterutrum a fratre suo

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

12 Abram habitavit in terra Chanaan Loth moratus est in oppidis quae erant circa Iordanem et habitavit in Sodomis

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

13 homines autem Sodomitae pessimi erant et peccatores coram Domino nimis

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

14 dixitque Dominus ad Abram postquam divisus est Loth ab eo leva oculos tuos et vide a loco in quo nunc es ad aquilonem et ad meridiem ad orientem et ad occidentem

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,

15 omnem terram quam conspicis tibi dabo et semini tuo usque in sempiternum

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

16 faciamque semen tuum sicut pulverem terrae si quis potest hominum numerare pulverem semen quoque tuum numerare poterit

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.

17 surge et perambula terram in longitudine et in latitudine sua quia tibi daturus sum eam

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

18 movens igitur Abram tabernaculum suum venit et habitavit iuxta convallem Mambre quod est in Hebron aedificavitque ibi altare Domino

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