Genesis 13

1Abram and Sarai took all the sheep and the things that they had and they went from the land of Egypt to the south of the land of Canaan. Lot went with them.

2Abram was very rich. Abram had a lot of cattle, sheep and goats, and Abram also had a lot of silver and gold.

3Abram continued traveling around. Abram went back to Bethel. Abram went to the place between the city of Bethel and Hai where Abram and his family had camped before

4The first time that Abram had been there, Abram had built an altar. Now Abram called on the name of the LORD at the altar.

5Lot was with Abram and Lot also had sheep, goats, cattle and tents.

6There was not enough grass and food for all of Abram's and Lot's animals, because they had too many animals, so they could not stay together.

7Then the shepherds of Abram and the shepherds of Lot started to fight. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were still living in the land.

8Abram said to Lot: ‘We are family. We must not fight and the people who work for us must not fight with each other.

9This land is big enough. It will be better if we separate. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. If you go to the right, then I will go to the left. Lot, you can choose.

10Lot looked and saw the whole Jordan Valley. Lot saw that there was much water there. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord's Garden. This was good land, like the land of Egypt.)

11So Lot chose to live in the Jordan Valley. The two men separated, and Lot began traveling east.

12Abram stayed in the land of Canaan but Lot took his sheep near to the towns of the valley and he put up his tents near the city of Sodom.

13In Sodom the people did very bad things and they sinned a lot against the Lord.

14After Abram and Lot had separated, the Lord said to Abram: You must look around you, to the north, to the south, to the east and to the west.

15I will give you and your family all the land that you can see. This land will be your land and your family's land forever.

16I will give you so many descendants that they will be like the dust of the earth. No one could count them, any more than someone could count all the dust of the earth.

17You must now walk through the whole land and look at it because I am going to give this land to you.

18Then Abram took his tents and Abram went to stay near the big trees of Mamre near the city of Hebron, where Abram built an altar to worship the Lord.