Genesis 13:5-14

Revised Geneva Translation

⁵ And Lot, also, who went with Abram, had sheep and cattle and tents,

⁶ And the land could not bear them, so that they might dwell together. For their substance was great; and they could not dwell together.

⁷ Also, there was debate between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle. And the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled in the land at that time.

⁸ Then Abram said to Lot, “I urge you, let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen. For we are brothers.

⁹ “Is not the whole land before you? I encourage you to depart from me. If you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or, if you go to the right hand, then I will take the left.”

¹⁰ So, when Lot lifted up his eyes, he saw that all the plain of Jordan was watered, everywhere (for before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was as the Garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar).

¹¹ Then Lot chose all the plain of Jordan and took his journey from the east; and they departed from each other.

¹² Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan; and Lot stayed in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.

¹³ Now, the men of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners against the LORD.

¹⁴ Then the LORD said to Abram (after Lot had departed from him), “Lift up your eyes now, and look from the place where you are—northward and southward and eastward and westward—