¹ И вышелъ Аврамъ изъ Египта, самъ, и жена его, и все, что у него было, и Лотъ съ нимъ, въ полуденный край.

² И былъ Аврамъ очень богатъ скотомъ, и серебромъ, и золотомъ.

³ И продолжалъ онъ переходы свои отъ полуденнаго края до Веѕиля, до мјста, гдј прежде былъ шатеръ его, между Веѕилемъ и между Гаемъ,

⁴ до мјста жертвенника, который онъ создалъ тамъ въ началј; и тамъ призвалъ Аврамъ имя Іеговы.

⁵ И у Лота, который ходилъ съ Аврамомъ, былъ мелкій и крупный скотъ и шатры.

⁶ И земля не позволяла имъ жить вмјстј: поелику богатство ихъ было такъ велико, что они не могли жить вмјстј.

⁷ Между пастухами скота Аврамова и между пастухами скота Лотова произошло несогласіе; притомъ Хананеи и Ферезеи жили тогда въ землј сей.

⁸ И потому Аврамъ сказалъ Лоту: да не будетъ раздора между мною и тобою, и между пастухами моими и пастухами твоими; ибо мы родственники.

⁹ Не вся ли земля предъ тобою? прошу, отдјлись отъ меня. Если ты на лјво, то я на право; а если ты на право, то я на лјво.

¹⁰ Лотъ возвелъ очи свои и увидјлъ равнину Іорданскую, которая прежде, нежели истребилъ Іегова Содомъ и Гоморръ, вся, какъ садъ Іеговы, какъ земля Египетская, орошалась водою даже до Цоара.

¹¹ И избралъ себј Лотъ всю равнину Іорданскую; и двигнулся Лотъ къ востоку. Такъ разлучились они другъ съ другомъ.

¹² Аврамъ сталъ жить на землј Ханаанской: а Лотъ сталъ жить въ городахъ равнины, и доходилъ съ шатрами до Содома.

¹³ Жители же Содомскіе были злы и весьма грјшны предъ Іеговою.

¹⁴ Между тјмъ Авраму, послј того, какъ Лоть отдјлился отъ него, Іегова сказалъ: возведи очи твои, и съ мјста, на которомъ ты теперь, посмотри къ сјверу, и къ югу, и къ востоку, и къ западу.

¹⁵ Ибо всю землю, которую ты видишь, тебј дамъ Я и потомству твоему навсегда,

¹⁶ И дамъ тебј потомство, какъ песокъ земный; если возможно кому счесть песокъ земный, то и потомство твое сочтено будетъ.

¹⁷ Встань, пройди по землј сей въ долготу и въ широту ея: ибо Я тебј дамъ ее.

¹⁸ Итакъ Аврамъ двигнулъ шатеръ, и пошелъ, и поселился у дубравы Мамре, что у Хеврона; и создалъ тамъ жертвенникъ Іеговј.

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.