Genesis 13:11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

English Standard Version
So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.

New American Standard Bible
So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other.

King James Bible
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Lot chose the entire Jordan Valley for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.

International Standard Version
So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan plain. Then Lot traveled eastward, and they separated from each other.

American Standard Version
So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.

Darby Bible Translation
And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other:

Young's Literal Translation
and Lot chooseth for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeyeth from the east, and they are parted -- a man from his companion;

Cross References

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar.

Genesis 13:12
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Ezekiel 47:18
And the east side you shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border to the east sea. And this is the east side.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

13:10-13 Abram having offered Lot the choice, he at once accepted it. Passion and selfishness make men rude. Lot looked to the goodness of the land; therefore he doubted not that in such a fruitful soil he should certainly thrive. But what came of it? Those who, in choosing relations, callings, dwellings, or settlements, are guided and governed by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life, cannot expect God's presence or blessing. They are commonly disappointed even in that which they principally aim at. In all our choices this principle should rule, That is best for us, which is best for our souls. Lot little considered the badness of the inhabitants. The men of Sodom were impudent, daring sinners. This was the iniquity of Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness, Eze 16:49. God often gives great plenty to great sinners. It has often been the vexatious lot of good men to live among wicked neighbours; and it must be the more grievous, if, as Lot here, they have brought it upon themselves by a wrong choice.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. Then Lot chose him all the plain—a choice excellent from a worldly point of view, but most inexpedient for his best interests. He seems, though a good man, to have been too much under the influence of a selfish and covetous spirit: and how many, alas! imperil the good of their souls for the prospect of worldly advantage.