Genesis 13 · Parashat Lech-Lecha

And Avram went up out of Miżrayim, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negev.

And Avram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

And he went on his journeys from the Negev even to Bet-el, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bet-el and ῾Ay;

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Avram called on the name of the Lord.

And Lot also, who went with Avram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

And there was a strife between the herdmen of Avram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Kena῾ani and the Perizzi dwelt then in the land.

And Avram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen, for we are brethren.

Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Yarden, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sedom and ῾Amora, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Miżrayim, as thou comest to Żo῾ar.

Then Lot chose him all the plain of the Yarden; and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves one from the other.

Avram dwelt in the land of Kena῾an, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sedom.

But the men of Sedom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

And the Lord said to Avram, after Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thy eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward;

for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee.

Then Avram removed his tent, and came and dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre, which is in Ḥevron, and built there an altar to the Lord.