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Genesis 13:9-11
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Genesis 13:9-11
The Voice
9 A vast land is out there and available to you. It is time for us to go our separate ways. You choose your land. If you choose east, I’ll go west. If you choose west, I’ll go east—it’s your call.
Abram is an exemplary man of faith. Being older than Lot, he by custom has first choice of the property, but he waives his right and grants Lot the first choice. Given their recent experiences in the famine, it is no wonder that Lot chooses the lush, fertile soils of the Jordan Valley for his new home. But as Lot moves his family east, he moves farther from Abram and closer to danger.
10 Lot looked around, and he noticed the grassy plains in the Jordan Valley looked well watered and fertile, just as he imagined the Eternal One’s gardens might be or as he knew the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar to be. (This all happened before the Eternal destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) 11 So Lot chose to settle his family on the plains of the Jordan Valley, and he journeyed eastward. This is how Abram and Lot separated from each other and established two different households.
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Genesis 13:9-11
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Genesis 13:9-11
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9 Is 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.”(A)
10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain(B) of the Jordan toward Zoar(C) was well watered, like the garden of the Lord,(D) like the land of Egypt.(E) (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom(F) and Gomorrah.)(G) 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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