Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
and Lot chooseth for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeyeth from the east, and they are parted -- a man from his companion;
New American Standard Bible
So Lot chose for himself all the
King James Version
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Holman Bible
So Lot chose the entire Jordan Valley for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.
International Standard Version
So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan plain. Then Lot traveled eastward, and they separated from each other.
A Conservative Version
So Lot chose for himself all the Plain of the Jordan. And Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
American Standard Version
So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Amplified
Then Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and he traveled east. So they separated from each other.
Bible in Basic English
So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.
Darby Translation
And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other:
Julia Smith Translation
And Lot shall choose to him all the environs of Jordan: and Lot will remove from the east and they shall be separated each from his brother.
King James 2000
Then Lot chose all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan. And Lot journeyed from the east, and so they separated {from each other}.
Modern King James verseion
And Lot chose all the circuit of Jordan for himself. And Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves from one another.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then Lot chose all the coasts of Jordan and took his journey from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other.
NET Bible
Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.
New Heart English Bible
So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
The Emphasized Bible
And Lot chose for himself all the circuit of the Jordan, so Lot brake up eastwards, - and they separated themselves, each man from his brother:
Webster
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
World English Bible
So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Themes
Covetousness » Instances of » Lot, in choosing the plain of the jordan
Jordan, the river » The plains of » Chosen by lot for a residence
Lot » Life summarized » Made a worldly choice
Lot » The son of haran » Separates from abraham, and locates in sodom
Temptation » Yielding to temptation » The lure of fertile fields
Interlinear
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Qedem
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 13:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Parting Of Abram And Lot
10 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, 11 and Lot chooseth for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeyeth from the east, and they are parted -- a man from his companion; 12 Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;
Cross References
Genesis 13:9
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.'
Genesis 13:14
And Jehovah said unto Abram, after Lot's being parted from him, 'Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward;
Genesis 19:17
And it cometh to pass when he hath brought them out without, that he saith, 'Escape for thy life; look not expectingly behind thee, nor stand thou in all the circuit; to the mountain escape, lest thou be consumed.'
Psalm 16:3
For the holy ones who are in the land, And the honourable, all my delight is in them.
Psalm 119:63
A companion I am to all who fear Thee, And to those keeping Thy precepts.
Proverbs 27:10
Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better is a near neighbour than a brother afar off.
Hebrews 10:25
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain is, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.
1 Peter 2:17
to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.