Genesis 13:10-18 ▼

10 Lot looked around and noticed that the whole Jordan plain as far as Zoar was well-watered like the garden of the LORD or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

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

12 So Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the plain, setting up his tent in the vicinity of Sodom.

13 Now the men of Sodom were particularly evil and sinful in their defiance of the LORD.

14 After Lot had separated from Abram, the LORD told Abram, |Look off to the north, south , east, and west from where you're living,

15 because I'm going to give you and your descendants all of the land that you see—forever!

16 I'll make your descendants as plentiful as the specks of dust of the earth, so that if one could count the specks of dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.

17 Get up! Walk throughout the length and breadth of the land, because I'm going to give it to you.|

18 So Abram moved his tent and settled beside the oaks of Mamre that are by Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.