1 - And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south;
2 - and Abram <FI>is<Fi> exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
3 - 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--
4 - unto the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah.
5 - And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents;
6 - 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;
7 - and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite <FI>are<Fi> then dwelling in the land.
8 - 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 <FI>are<Fi> men--brethren.
9 - 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.'
10 - And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it <FI>is<Fi> 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,
11 - 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;
12 - Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;
13 - and the men of Sodom <FI>are<Fi> evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.
14 - 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 <FI>art<Fi> , northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward;
15 - for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed--to the age.
16 - 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;
17 - rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'
18 - And Abram tenteth, and cometh, and dwelleth among the oaks of Mamre, which <FI>are<Fi> in Hebron, and buildeth there an altar to Jehovah.
