Genesis 13 - NKJV Bible Online

Genesis 13

Abram Inherits Canaan

Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and ^aLot with him, ^bto the ¹South. 2 ^aAbram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. 3 And he went on his journey ^afrom the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, 4 to the ^aplace of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram ^bcalled on the name of the Lord.
5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. 6 Now ^athe land was not able to ¹support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was ^astrife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. ^bThe Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.
8 So Abram said to Lot, ^a“Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. 9 ^aIs not the whole land before you? Please ^bseparate from me. ^cIf you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”
10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all ^athe plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord ^bdestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) ^clike the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward ^dZoar. 11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other. 12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot ^adwelt in the cities of the plain and ^bpitched his tent even as far as Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom ^awere exceedingly wicked and ^bsinful against the Lord.
14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot ^ahad separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—^bnorthward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 for all the land which you see ^aI give to you and ^byour ¹descendants forever. 16 And ^aI will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. 17 Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”
18 ^aThen Abram moved his tent, and went and ^bdwelt by ¹the terebinth trees of Mamre, ^cwhich are in Hebron, and built an ^daltar there to the Lord.

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