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And Abram goes up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he has, and Lot with him) toward the south;
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and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
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And he goes on his journeys from the south, even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the commencement, between Bethel and Hai—
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to the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there Abram preaches in the Name of YHWH.
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And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there has been sheep and oxen and tents;
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and the land has not permitted them to dwell together, for their substance has been much, and they have not been able to dwell together;
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and there is a strife between those feeding Abram’s livestock and those feeding Lot’s livestock; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite [are] then dwelling in the land.
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And Abram says to Lot, “Please let there not be strife between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we [are] men—brothers.
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Is not all the land before you? Please be parted from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.”
Lot Proceeds toward Sodom
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And Lot lifts up his eyes, and sees the whole circuit of the Jordan that it [is] all a watered country (before YHWH’s destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as YHWH’s garden, as the land of Egypt), in your coming toward Zoar,
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and Lot chooses for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeys from the east, and they are parted—a man from his companion;
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Abram has dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot has dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and moves [his] tent to Sodom;
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and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before YHWH exceedingly.
God Renews the Promise to Abram
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And YHWH said to Abram, after Lot’s being parted from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you [are], northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward;
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for the whole of the land which you are seeing, I give it to you and to your Seed for all time.
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And I have set your seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even your seed is numbered;
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rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to you I give it.”
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And Abram moves [his] tent, and comes, and dwells among the oaks of Mamre, which [are] in Hebron, and builds there an altar to YHWH.
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