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¹Therefore Abram ascended from Egypt, he, and his wife, and all things that he had; and Lot went with him, to the south coast.

²Forsooth he was full rich in possessions of silver, and of gold.

³And he turned again by the way in which he came from the south into Bethel, till to the place, in which before he had set a tabernacle, betwixt Bethel and Hai,

⁴in the place of the altar which he made before, and inwardly called there the name of the Lord.

⁵But also flocks of sheep, and droves of oxen, and tabernacles were to Lot, that was with Abram;

⁶and the land might not take them, that they should dwell together, for the cattle of them was much, and they might not dwell in common.

⁷Wherefore also strife was made betwixt the keepers of the flocks of Abram and of Lot. Forsooth Canaanites and Perizzites dwelled in that land in that time.

⁸Therefore Abram said to Lot, I beseech thee, that no strife be betwixt me and thee, and betwixt my shepherds and thy shepherds; for we be brethren.

⁹Lo! all the land is before thee, I beseech, depart thou from me; if thou go to the left side, I shall hold the right side; if thou choose the right side, I shall go to the left side.

¹⁰And so Lot raised up his eyes, and saw about all the country of Jordan, which was all-moisted, before that the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, as paradise of the Lord, and as Egypt, as men come into Zoar.

¹¹And Lot chose to him the country about Jordan, and departed from the east; and they were parted each from his brother.

¹²Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan; soothly Lot dwelled in the towns about Jordan, and abode in Sodom.

¹³Forsooth men of Sodom were full wicked, and sinners greatly before the Lord.

¹⁴And the Lord said to Abram, after that Lot was parted from him, Raise up thine eyes forthright, and see from the place in which thou art now, to the north and south, to the east and west;

¹⁵I shall give all the land which thou seest to thee, and to thy seed, till into without end.

¹⁶And I shall make thy seed as the dust of the earth; if any man may number the dust of the earth, also he shall be able to number thy seed.

¹⁷Therefore rise thou, and pass through the land in his length and breadth, for I shall give it to thee.

¹⁸Therefore Abram, moving his tabernacle, came and dwelled beside the valley of Mamre, which is in Hebron; and he builded there an altar to the Lord.