Abraham and Lot Separate
Gen 13:1-18
13:1Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.
13:2Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
13:3He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
13:4to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the LORD’s name.
13:5Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
13:6The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.
13:7There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
13:8Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
13:9Isn’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.”
13:10Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
13:11So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.
13:12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.