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And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;
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To the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
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And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
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And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
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And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.
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And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we [are] brethren.
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[Is] not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if [thou wilt take] the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if [thou wilt depart] to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
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And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it [was] well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, [even] as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest to Zoar.
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Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
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Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent towards Sodom.
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But the men of Sodom [were] wicked, and sinners before the LORD, exceedingly.