The Beginning (Genesis) 13

1And Exalted Father (Abram) went up out of Double Straights (Egypt), he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Covering (Lot) with him, into the south.

 2And Exalted Father (Abram) was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

 3And he went on his journeys from the south to the House of God (Bethel), to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between House of God (Bethel) and Heap of Ruins (Hai);

 4To the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Exalted Father (Abram) called on the name of I AM (the LORD - Yehovah).

 5And Covering (Lot) also, who went with Exalted Father (Abram), had flocks, and herds, and tents.

 6And 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.

 7And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Exalted Father's (Abram) cattle and the herdsmen of Covering's (Lot) cattle: and the Humbled Ones (Canaanite) and the Village Dwellers (Perizzite) also dwelt then in the land.

 8And Exalted Father (Abram) said to Covering (Lot), Let's not fight, you and me, or my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. 

9 Look, you can have your choice of the land, if you take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you choose to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

 10And Covering (Lot) lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Descender (Jordan), that it was well watered every where, before I AM (the LORD - Yehovah) destroyed Burning (Sodom) and Tyrants (Gomorrah), even as the garden of I AM (the LORD - Yehovah), like the land of Double Straights (Egypt), as you come to Insignificance (Zoar).

 11Then Covering (Lot) chose all the plain of the Descender (Jordan); and Covering (Lot) journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

 12Exalted Father (Abram) dwelt in the land of Humbled One (Canaan), and Covering (Lot) dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Burning (Sodom).

 13But the men of Burning (Sodom) were wicked and sinners before I AM (the LORD - Yehovah) exceedingly.

 14And the I AM (the LORD - Yehovah) said unto Exalted Father (Abram), after Covering (Lot) was separated from him, Lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

 15For all the land which you see, I give to you, and to your seed for ever.

 16And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be numbered.

 17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you.

 18Then Exalted Father (Abram ) removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Strength (Mamre), which is in Association (Hebron), and built there an altar unto I AM (the LORD - Yehovah).