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And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife , and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south ;
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and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in cattle , in silver , and in gold .
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And he goeth on his journeyings from the south , even unto Bethel , unto the place where his tent had been at the commencement, between Bethel and Hai --
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unto the place of the altar which he made there at the first , and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah .
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And also to Lot, who is going with Abram , there hath been sheep and oxen and tents ;
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and the land hath not suffered them to dwell together, for their substance hath 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 cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle ; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite [are] then dwelling in the land .
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And Abram saith unto Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds , for we [are] men -- brethren .
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Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.'
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And Lot lifteth up his eyes , and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it [is] all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah , as Jehovah's garden , as the land of Egypt ,) in thy coming toward Zoar ,
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and Lot chooseth for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan ; and Lot journeyeth from the east, and they are parted -- a man from his companion;
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Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan , and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom ;
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and the men of Sodom [are] evil , and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.
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And Jehovah said unto Abram , after Lot's being parted from him, `Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes , and look from the place where thou [art], northward , and southward , and eastward, and westward;
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for the whole of the land which thou are seeing , to thee I give it, and to thy seed -- to the age.
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And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth , so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth , even thy seed is numbered;
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rise , go up and down through the land , to its length , and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'
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And Abram tenteth, and cometh , and dwelleth among the oaks of Mamre , which [are] in Hebron , and buildeth there an altar to Jehovah .