1So Abram went up out of Egypt into the south. He took his wife and all that he had, and Lot went with him.
2Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
3He travelled on from the south as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the first, between Bethel and Hai.
4He came to the place of the altar which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
5Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents.
6The land could not support them both living together, because they had so much. They could not live together.
7There was quarrelling between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.
8Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no quarrelling between me and you, or between my herdsmen and your herdsmen. We are brothers."
9"Is not the whole land in front of you? Please separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right. If you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
10Lot looked up and saw the whole plain of Jordan. It was well watered everywhere, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go toward Zoar. This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
11So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of Jordan, and Lot travelled east. They separated from each other.
12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
13But the men of Sodom were wicked, and sinned very greatly before the LORD.
14The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "Lift up your eyes now, and look from the place where you are to the north, and the south, and the east, and the west."
15"All the land that you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever."
16"I will make your seed like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your seed could be counted too."
17"Get up, and walk through the land, through its length and its breadth, for I will give it to you."
18Then Abram moved his tent, and came and lived in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.