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And there was strifebetween the herdsmen of Abram'slivestock and the herdsmen of Lot'slivestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwellingthen in the land.
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"Is not the wholelandbefore you? Pleaseseparate 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."
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Lotlifted up his eyes and sawall the valley of the Jordan, that it was wellwateredeverywhere -this was before the LORDdestroyedSodom and Gomorrah -like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go to Zoar.
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Now the men of Sodom were wickedexceedingly and sinners against the LORD.
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The LORDsaid to Abram, afterLot had separated from him, "Nowlift up your eyes and look from the placewhere* you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
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"I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that ifanyonecannumber the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered.