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And Abram went up out of Egypt , he, and his wife , and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South .
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And Abram was very rich in cattle , in silver , and in gold .
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And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el , unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Ai ,
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unto the place of the altar , which he had made there at the first : and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah .
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And Lot also, who went with Abram , had flocks , and herds , and tents .
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And 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.
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And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram 's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle : and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land .
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And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we are brethren .
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Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. If [thou wilt take] the left hand , then I will go to the right. Or if [thou take] the right hand , then I will go to the left.
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And Lot lifted up his eyes , and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan , that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah , like the garden of Jehovah , like the land of Egypt , as thou goest unto Zoar .
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So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan ; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
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Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan , and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom .
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Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly.
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And Jehovah said unto Abram , after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes , and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward:
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for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever .
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And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : So that if a man can number the dust of the earth , then may thy seed also be numbered.
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Arise , walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.
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And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre , which are in Hebron , and built there an altar unto Jehovah .