1So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.[ † ]Genesis 12:4Genesis 14:12-16Genesis 12:9 2And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.[ † ]Genesis 24:35Genesis 26:14Psalms 112:3Proverbs 10:22
3From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,[ † ]Genesis 12:8-9 4to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the Lord.[ † ]Genesis 12:7-8Genesis 21:33Psalms 116:17
5Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 6But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.[ † ]Genesis 36:7 7And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.[ † ]Genesis 26:20Genesis 12:6Genesis 15:20-21
8So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are kinsmen.[ † ]1 Corinthians 6:7Philippians 2:14-15 9Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”[ † ]Genesis 20:15Genesis 34:10Genesis 13:11-14Romans 12:18
10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)[ † ]Genesis 19:17-29Deuteronomy 34:3Genesis 19:24Genesis 2:8-10Isaiah 51:3Genesis 14:2-8Genesis 19:22 11So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.[ † ]Genesis 19:24-25, 29Genesis 14:12Genesis 19:1 13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the Lord.[ † ]Genesis 18:20-21Ezekiel 16:492 Peter 2:7-8Genesis 6:11Genesis 39:9Numbers 32:23
14After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,[ † ]Genesis 13:11Genesis 28:14 15for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.[ † ]Genesis 12:7Genesis 13:17Genesis 15:7-18Genesis 17:8Deuteronomy 34:4Acts 7:52 Chronicles 20:7Psalms 37:22
16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.[ † ]Genesis 22:17Exodus 32:13Numbers 23:10 17Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
18So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.[ † ]Genesis 26:17Genesis 14:13Genesis 23:2Genesis 35:27Genesis 8:20Genesis 22:8-9