¹ כרפאי לישראל ונגלה עון אפרים ורעות שמרון כי פעלו שקר וגנב יבוא פשט גדוד בחוץ׃

² ובל־יאמרו ללבבם כל־רעתם זכרתי עתה סבבום מעלליהם נגד פני היו׃

³ ברעתם ישמחו־מלך ובכחשיהם שרים׃

⁴ כלם מנאפים כמו תנור בערה מאפה ישבות מעיר מלוש בצק עד־חמצתו׃

⁵ יום מלכנו החלו שרים חמת מיין משך ידו את־לצצים׃

⁶ כי־קרבו כתנור לבם בארבם כל־הלילה ישן אפהם בקר הוא בער כאש להבה׃

⁷ כלם יחמו כתנור ואכלו את־שפטיהם כל־מלכיהם נפלו אין־קרא בהם אלי׃

⁸ אפרים בעמים הוא יתבולל אפרים היה עגה בלי הפוכה׃

⁹ אכלו זרים כחו והוא לא ידע גם־שיבה זרקה בו והוא לא ידע׃

¹⁰ וענה גאון־ישראל בפניו ולא־שבו אל־יהוה אלהיהם ולא בקשהו בכל־זאת׃

¹¹ ויהי אפרים כיונה פותה אין לב מצרים קראו אשור הלכו׃

¹² כאשר ילכו אפרוש עליהם רשתי כעוף השמים אורידם איסרם כשמע לעדתם׃ ס

¹³ אוי להם כי־נדדו ממני שד להם כי־פשעו בי ואנכי אפדם והמה דברו עלי כזבים׃

¹⁴ ולא־זעקו אלי בלבם כי יילילו על־משכבותם על־דגן ותירוש יתגוררו יסורו בי׃

¹⁵ ואני יסרתי חזקתי זרועתם ואלי יחשבו־רע׃

¹⁶ ישובו לא על היו כקשת רמיה יפלו בחרב שריהם מזעם לשונם זו לעגם בארץ מצרים׃

¹ Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

² Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

³ He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

⁴ to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

⁵ Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

⁶ The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

⁷ There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.

⁸ Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

⁹ Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

¹⁰ Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

¹¹ So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

¹² Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

¹³ Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

¹⁴ Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

¹⁵ for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

¹⁶ I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

¹⁸ Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.