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Genesis 13 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Abram Inherits Canaan
Abram Inherits Canaan
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:2 - Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:5 - Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:6 - Now the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:7 - And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:9 - Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:10 - And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of 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 toward Zoar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:13 - But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:15 - “for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants[fn] forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - “And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:17 - “Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre,[fn] which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
NKJV Footnotes
Hebrew Negev
Literally seed, and so throughout the book
Hebrew Alon Mamre
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