Genesis 13

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

And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

2 erat autem dives valde in possessione argenti et auri

Now Abram had great wealth of cattle 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

And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

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

To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.

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

And Lot, who went with him, 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

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

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 an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still 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

Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for 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 all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take 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, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

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

So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

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

Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

13 homines autem Sodomitae pessimi erant et peccatores coram Domino nimis

Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before 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

And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

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

For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

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

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

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

Come, go through all the land from one end to the other 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

And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.