Dual Panel1So Abram <087> went up <05927> from Egypt <04714> into the Negev <05045>. He <01931> took his wife <0802> and all <03605> his possessions with <05973> him, as well as Lot <03876>.
2(Now Abram <087> was very <03966> wealthy <03513> in livestock <04735>, silver <03701>, and gold <02091>.)
3And he journeyed <04550> <01980> from place to place from the Negev <05045> as far <05704> as Bethel <01008>. He returned to the place <04725> where <08033> <0834> he had pitched <01961> his tent <0168> at the beginning <08462>, between <0996> Bethel <01008> and <0996> Ai <05857>.
4This was the place <04725> where <0834> he had first <07223> built <06213> the altar <04196>, and there <08033> Abram <087> worshiped <07121> the Lord <03068> <08034>.
5Now Lot <03876>, who was traveling <01980> with <0854> Abram <087>, also had <01961> flocks <06629>, herds <01241>, and tents <0168>.
6But the land <0776> could not <03808> support <05375> them while they were living <03427> side by side <03162>. Because <03588> their possessions <07399> were <01961> so great <07227>, they were not <03808> able <03201> to live <03427> alongside <03162> one another.
7So there were <01961> quarrels <07379> between <0996> Abram’s <087> herdsmen <04735> <07473> and <0996> Lot’s <03876> herdsmen <04735> <07473>. (Now the Canaanites <03669> and the Perizzites <06522> were living <03427> in the land <0776> at that time <0227>.)
8Abram <087> said <0559> to <0413> Lot <03876>, “Let there <04994> be <01961> no <0408> quarreling <04808> between <0996> me and <0996> you, and between <0996> my herdsmen <07473> and <0996> your herdsmen <07473>, for <03588> we <0587> are close relatives <0251>.
9Is not <03808> the whole <03605> land <0776> before <06440> you? Separate <06504> yourself now <04994> from me. If <0518> you go <05921> to the left <08040>, then I’ll go to the right <03231>, but if <0518> you go to the right <03225>, then I’ll go to the left <08041>.”
10Lot <03876> looked up <05375> and saw <07200> <05869> the whole <03605> region <03603> of the Jordan <03383>. He noticed that <03588> all <03605> of it was well-watered <04945> (before <06440> the Lord <03068> obliterated <07843> Sodom <05467> and Gomorrah <06017>) like the garden <01588> of the Lord <03068>, like the land <0776> of Egypt <04714>, all the way <0935> to Zoar <06820>.
11Lot <03876> chose <0977> for himself the whole <03605> region <03603> of the Jordan <03383> and traveled <05265> toward the east <06924>. So the relatives <0251> separated <06504> from <05921> each <0376> other.
12Abram <087> settled <03427> in the land <0776> of Canaan <03667>, but Lot <03876> settled <03427> among the cities <05892> of the Jordan plain <03603> and pitched <0167> his tents <0167> next to <05704> Sodom <05467>.
13(Now the people <0376> of Sodom <05467> were extremely <03966> wicked <07451> rebels <02400> against the Lord <03068>.)
14After <0310> Lot <03876> had departed <06504>, the Lord <03068> said <0559> to <0413> Abram <087>, “Look <07200> from <04480> the place <04725> where <0834> you <0859> stand to the north <06828>, south <05045>, east <06924>, and west <03220>.
15I will give <05414> all <03605> the land <0776> that <0834> you <0859> see <07200> to you and your descendants <02233> forever <05769> <05704>.
16And I will make <07760> your descendants <02233> like the dust <06083> of the earth <0776>, so <0834> that if <0518> anyone <0582> is able <03201> to count <04487> the dust <06083> of the earth <0776>, then your descendants <02233> also <01571> can be counted <04487>.
17Get up <06965> and walk <01980> throughout <07341> <0753> the land <0776>, for <03588> I will give <05414> it to you.”
18So Abram <087> moved <0167> his tents <0167> and went <0935> to live <03427> by the oaks <0436> of Mamre <04471> in Hebron <02275>, and he built <01129> an altar <04196> to the Lord <03068> there <08033>.