Genesis 13:1-12

Abram and Lot Separate

1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
2 Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
3 From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier
4 and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
5 Now Lot, 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.
7 And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
8 So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.
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.”
10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

Cross References 31

  • 1. Genesis 45:25
  • 2. S Genesis 12:9
  • 3. S Genesis 11:27
  • 4. S Genesis 12:5; Genesis 26:13; Proverbs 10:22
  • 5. Genesis 32:15; Job 1:3; Job 42:12
  • 6. S Genesis 12:9
  • 7. S Genesis 12:8
  • 8. Joshua 7:2
  • 9. S Genesis 12:7
  • 10. S Genesis 4:26
  • 11. S Genesis 11:27
  • 12. S Genesis 12:5; Genesis 33:9; Genesis 36:7
  • 13. Genesis 26:20,21; Numbers 20:3
  • 14. S Genesis 10:18
  • 15. Genesis 15:20; Genesis 34:30; Exodus 3:8; Judges 1:4
  • 16. Genesis 12:6; Genesis 34:30
  • 17. S Genesis 11:27
  • 18. Proverbs 15:18; Proverbs 20:3
  • 19. Genesis 19:9; Exodus 2:14; Numbers 16:13; Psalms 133:1
  • 20. Genesis 20:15; Genesis 34:10; Genesis 47:6; Jeremiah 40:4
  • 21. 1 Kings 7:46; 2 Chronicles 4:17
  • 22. Numbers 13:29; Numbers 33:48
  • 23. Genesis 2:8-10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 31:8-9
  • 24. Genesis 46:7
  • 25. Genesis 14:2; Genesis 19:22,30; Deuteronomy 34:3; Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:34
  • 26. Deuteronomy 29:23; Job 39:6; Psalms 107:34; Jeremiah 4:26
  • 27. Genesis 14:8; Genesis 19:17-29
  • 28. S Genesis 10:19
  • 29. S Genesis 11:27
  • 30. S ver 10; Ge 19:17,25,29
  • 31. Genesis 14:12
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