ULT GEN Chapter 13

Abram and Lot Go Separate Ways

13:1-13

13 Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and everything that belonged to him, and Lot with him, to the Negev. 2 And Abram was very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold. 3 Then he went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tents had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, 4 to the place of the altar that he had made there at first, and there Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

5 Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, because their possessions were great so that they were not able to stay together. 7 Then there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. And the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land then.

8 So Abram said to Lot, “Please do not let there be strife between me and you, or between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, because we are men, brothers. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you go to the left, then I will go right, or if you go to the right, then I will go left.”

10 Then Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of the Jordan as you go toward Zoar, that all of it was well-watered, like Yahweh’s garden, like the land of Egypt, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. 11 So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan, and Lot traveled to the east, and they separated from each other. 12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled in the cities of the plain and moved his tents as far as Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against Yahweh.

God Blesses Abram Again

13:14-18

14 Then Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes please from the place where you are, and look northward and southward and eastward and westward, 15 because all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever. 16 And I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, which if anyone were able to count the dust of the earth, your offspring could also be counted. 17 Get up and walk through the land, through its length and through its width, because to you I am giving it.” 18 So Abram moved his tents and went and settled by the terebinth trees of Mamre that were near Hebron, and there he built an altar to Yahweh.