Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width, for I will give it to you.”

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.

After Lot had separated from him, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

Then Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev—he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him.

Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

for I will give you and your offspring forever all the land that you see.

Then Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.

Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning greatly against the Lord.

Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.

Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities of the valley and set up his tent near Sodom.

and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.

He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,

But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together,

Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there.

So Lot chose the entire Jordan Valley for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.