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And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south;
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and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
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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 --
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unto the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah.
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And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents;
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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;
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and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite [are] then dwelling in the land.
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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 [are] men -- brethren.
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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.'
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And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it [is] 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,