Genesis 13 — OURB

13Verse 1Avram [Exalted father] went up out of Egypt [Abode of slavery]— he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot [Veil, Covering] with him— into the South.^{Verse 2}Avram [Exalted father] was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.^{Verse 3}He went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el [House of God], to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el [House of God] and Ai,^{Verse 4}to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Avram [Exalted father] called on Adonai’s name. (3)^{Verse 5}Lot [Veil, Covering] also, who went with Avram [Exalted father], had flocks, herds, and tents.^{Verse 6}The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.^{Verse 7}There was strife between the herdsmen of Avram [Exalted father]’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot [Veil, Covering]’s livestock. The Canaanites [Descendants of Humbled] and the Perizzites [Descendants of Belonging to village] lived in the land at that time.^{Verse 8}Avram [Exalted father] said to Lot [Veil, Covering], “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.^{Verse 9}Is not 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.”^{Verse 10}Lot [Veil, Covering] lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan [Descender], that it was well-watered everywhere, before Adonai destroyed Sodom [Burning] and Gomorrah [Rebellious people, Tyrants], like the garden of Adonai, like the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery], as you go to Zoar [Small].^{Verse 11}So Lot [Veil, Covering] chose the Plain of the Jordan [Descender] for himself. Lot [Veil, Covering] traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.^{Verse 12}Avram [Exalted father] lived in the land of Canaan [Humbled], and Lot [Veil, Covering] lived in the 'Ieyr HaKikar [Cities of the Round], and moved his tent as far as Sodom [Burning].^{Verse 13}Now the men of Sodom [Burning] were exceedingly wicked and people who sin ·intentionally miss the mark goal· against Adonai.^{Verse 14}Adonai said to Avram [Exalted father], after Lot [Veil, Covering] was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,^{Verse 15}for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.^{+Verse 16}I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.^{Verse 17}Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”^{Verse 18}Avram [Exalted father] moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre [Bitter, Fatness], which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Adonai.