[:en]Abram and Lot went together from Egypt to Negev until they came to Bethel. Because they had much possessions, the flocks and herds could not support them. So quarreling arose between Abram’s herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. Abram said to Lot: “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers. Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left” (vs. 8-9).
Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, so he chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company. Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
After Abram and Lot had parted, the Lord said to Abram: “Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you” So Abram moved his tens and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron where he built an altar to the Lord. (vs. 14-18)[:]