Genesis 13:8-18

8 1So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.
9 "Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left."
10 Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the 2valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere -this was before the LORD 3destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah -like 4the garden of the LORD, 5like the land of Egypt as you go to 6Zoar.
11 So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other.
12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in 7the cities of the valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.
13 Now 8the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and 9sinners against the LORD.
14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, "10Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where * you are, 11northward and southward and eastward and westward;
15 12for all the land which you see, 13I will give it to you and to your descendants forever *.
16 "I will make your descendants 14as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered.
17 "Arise, 15walk about the land through its length and breadth; for 16I will give it to you."
18 Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the 17oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built 18an altar to the LORD.

Cross References 18

  • 1. Proverbs 15:18; Proverbs 20:3
  • 2. Genesis 19:17-29; Deuteronomy 34:3
  • 3. Genesis 19:24
  • 4. Genesis 2:8, 10
  • 5. Genesis 47:6
  • 6. Genesis 14:2, 8; Genesis 19:22; Deuteronomy 34:3
  • 7. Genesis 14:2; Genesis 19:24, 25, 29
  • 8. Genesis 18:20; Ezekiel 16:49
  • 9. Genesis 39:9; Numbers 32:23; 2 Peter 2:7, 8
  • 10. Deuteronomy 3:27; Deuteronomy 34:1-4; Isaiah 49:18
  • 11. Genesis 28:14
  • 12. Genesis 12:7
  • 13. Genesis 13:17; Genesis 15:7; Genesis 17:8; 2 Chronicles 20:7; Acts 7:5
  • 14. Genesis 16:10; Genesis 28:14; Numbers 23:10
  • 15. Numbers 13:17-24
  • 16. Genesis 13:15
  • 17. Genesis 14:13
  • 18. Genesis 8:20; Genesis 12:7, 8

Footnotes 10

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