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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And quarreling arose between Abram's herders and Lot's. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Is not the whole land before you? Let's part company. If you go to the left, I'll go to the right; if you go to the right, I'll go to the left." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, "Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the LORD. |
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