Good News Translation GNT
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1 Abram went north out of Egypt to the southern part of Canaan with his wife and everything he owned, and Lot went with him.
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Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
2 Abram was a very rich man, with sheep, goats, and cattle, as well as silver and gold.
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Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
3 Then he left there and moved from place to place, going toward Bethel. He reached the place between Bethel and Ai where he had camped before
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He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
4 and had built an altar. There he worshiped the Lord.
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to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
5 Lot also had sheep, goats, and cattle, as well as his own family and servants.
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Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
6 And so there was not enough pasture land for the two of them to stay together, because they had too many animals.
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The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
7 So quarrels broke out between the men who took care of Abram's animals and those who took care of Lot's animals. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were still living in the land.)
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There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land.
8 Then Abram said to Lot, "We are relatives, and your men and my men shouldn't be quarreling.
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Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
9 So let's separate. Choose any part of the land you want. You go one way, and I'll go the other."
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Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole Jordan Valley, all the way to Zoar, had plenty of water, like the Garden of the Lord or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
11 So Lot chose the whole Jordan Valley for himself and moved away toward the east. That is how the two men parted.
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So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
12 Abram stayed in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled among the cities in the valley and camped near Sodom,
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Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13 whose people were wicked and sinned against the Lord.
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Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
14 After Lot had left, the Lord said to Abram, "From where you are, look carefully in all directions.
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Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
15 I am going to give you and your descendants all the land that you see, and it will be yours forever.
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for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
16 I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!
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I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
17 Now, go and look over the whole land, because I am going to give it all to you."
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Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to you."
18 So Abram moved his camp and settled near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
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Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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