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Genesis 13
New International Version

### Abram and Lot Separate

13 So Abram went up from Egypt(A) to the Negev,(B) with his wife and everything he had, and Lot(C) went with him. 2 Abram had become very wealthy(D) in livestock(E) and in silver and gold.

3 From the Negev(F) he went from place to place until he came to Bethel,(G) to the place between Bethel and Ai(H) where his tent had been earlier 4 and where he had first built an altar.(I) There Abram called on the name of the Lord.(J)

5 Now Lot,(K) who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.(L) 7 And quarreling(M) arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites(N) and Perizzites(O) were also living in the land(P) at that time.

8 So Abram said to Lot,(Q) “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me,(R) or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.(S) 9 Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”(T)

10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain(U) of the Jordan toward Zoar(V) was well watered, like the garden of the Lord,(W) like the land of Egypt.(X) (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom(Y) and Gomorrah.)(Z) 11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan,(AA) while Lot(AB) lived among the cities of the plain(AC) and pitched his tents near Sodom.(AD) 13 Now the people of Sodom(AE) were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.(AF)

14 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.(AG) 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring[a] forever.(AH) 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.(AI) 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land,(AJ) for I am giving it to you.”(AK)

18 So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre(AL) at Hebron,(AM) where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.(AN)

#### Footnotes

1. Genesis 13:15 Or seed; also in verse 16

#### Cross references

1. Genesis 13:1 : Ge 45:25
2. Genesis 13:1 : S Ge 12:9
3. Genesis 13:1 : S Ge 11:27
4. Genesis 13:2 : S Ge 12:5; 26:13; Pr 10:22
5. Genesis 13:2 : Ge 32:15; Job 1:3; 42:12
6. Genesis 13:3 : S Ge 12:9
7. Genesis 13:3 : S Ge 12:8
8. Genesis 13:3 : Jos 7:2
9. Genesis 13:4 : S Ge 12:7
10. Genesis 13:4 : S Ge 4:26
11. Genesis 13:5 : S Ge 11:27
12. Genesis 13:6 : S Ge 12:5; 33:9; 36:7
13. Genesis 13:7 : Ge 26:20, 21; Nu 20:3
14. Genesis 13:7 : S Ge 10:18
15. Genesis 13:7 : Ge 15:20; 34:30; Ex 3:8; Jdg 1:4
16. Genesis 13:7 : Ge 12:6; 34:30
17. Genesis 13:8 : S Ge 11:27
18. Genesis 13:8 : Pr 15:18; 20:3
19. Genesis 13:8 : Ge 19:9; Ex 2:14; Nu 16:13; Ps 133:1
20. Genesis 13:9 : Ge 20:15; 34:10; 47:6; Jer 40:4
21. Genesis 13:10 : 1Ki 7:46; 2Ch 4:17
22. Genesis 13:10 : Ge 14:2; 19:22, 30; Nu 13:29; 33:48; Dt 34:3; Isa 15:5; Jer 48:34
23. Genesis 13:10 : Ge 2:8-10; Isa 51:3; Eze 31:8-9
24. Genesis 13:10 : Ge 46:7
25. Genesis 13:10 : Dt 29:23; Job 39:6; Ps 107:34; Jer 4:26
26. Genesis 13:10 : Ge 14:8; 19:17-29
27. Genesis 13:12 : S Ge 10:19
28. Genesis 13:12 : S Ge 11:27
29. Genesis 13:12 : S ver 10; Ge 19:17, 25, 29
30. Genesis 13:12 : Ge 14:12
31. Genesis 13:13 : Ge 19:4; Isa 1:10; 3:9
32. Genesis 13:13 : Ge 18:20; 19:5; 20:6; 39:9; Nu 32:23; 1Sa 12:23; 2Sa 12:13; Ps 51:4; Eze 16:49-50; 2Pe 2:8
33. Genesis 13:14 : Ge 28:14; 32:12; 48:16; Dt 3:27; 13:17; Isa 54:3
34. Genesis 13:15 : S Ge 12:7; Gal 3:16*
35. Genesis 13:16 : S Ge 12:2; 16:10; 17:20; 21:13, 18; 25:16; Nu 23:10
36. Genesis 13:17 : ver 15; Nu 13:17-25
37. Genesis 13:17 : S Ge 12:7; 15:7
38. Genesis 13:18 : Ge 14:13, 24; 18:1; 23:17, 19; 25:9; 49:30; 50:13
39. Genesis 13:18 : Ge 23:2; 35:27; 37:14; Nu 13:22; Jos 10:3, 36; Jdg 1:10; 1Sa 30:31; 2Sa 2:1, 3, 11; 1Ch 11:1
40. Genesis 13:18 : S Ge 8:20

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