¹ 亚伯兰带着他的妻子与罗得，并一切所有的，都从埃及上南地去。

² 亚伯兰的金、银、牲畜极多。

³ 他从南地渐渐往伯特利去，到了伯特利和艾的中间，就是从前支搭帐棚的地方，

⁴ 也是他起先筑坛的地方；他又在那里求告耶和华的名。

⁵ 与亚伯兰同行的罗得也有牛群、羊群、帐棚。

⁶ 那地容不下他们；因为他们的财物甚多，使他们不能同居。

⁷ 当时，迦南人与比利洗人在那地居住。亚伯兰的牧人和罗得的牧人相争。

⁸ 亚伯兰就对罗得说：你我不可相争，你的牧人和我的牧人也不可相争，因为我们是骨肉(原文作弟兄)。

⁹ 遍地不都在你眼前麽？请你离开我：你向左，我就向右；你向右，我就向左。

¹⁰ 罗得举目看见约但河的全平原，直到琐珥，都是滋润的，那地在耶和华未灭所多玛、蛾摩拉以先如同耶和华的园子，也像埃及地。

¹¹ 於是罗得选择约但河的全平原，往东迁移；他们就彼此分离了。

¹² 亚伯兰住在迦南地，罗得住在平原的城邑，渐渐挪移帐棚，直到所多玛。

¹³ 所多玛人在耶和华面前罪大恶极。

¹⁴ 罗得离别亚伯兰以後，耶和华对亚伯兰说：从你所在的地方，你举目向东西南北观看；

¹⁵ 凡你所看见的一切地，我都要赐给你和你的後裔，直到永远。

¹⁶ 我也要使你的後裔如同地上的尘沙那样多，人若能数算地上的尘沙才能数算你的後裔。

¹⁷ 你起来，纵横走遍这地，因为我必把这地赐给你。

¹⁸ 亚伯兰就搬了帐棚，来到希伯仑幔利的橡树那里居住，在那里为耶和华筑了一座坛。

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.