1 Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev, with his wife and all he owned, and Lot with him.
2 Abram was heavily laden with livestock, silver, and gold.
3 He traveled by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place where his tent had first been, between Bethel and Ai,
4 the site of the altar he had made there at the beginning; and there Abram called upon the name of the LORD.
5 Lot, too, who traveled with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents,
6 and the land could not carry them both living together, because their possessions were too many for them to live together.
7 Quarreling broke out between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. The Canaanite and the Perizzite were living in the land then.
8 So Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no quarrel, please, between me and you or between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
9 Is not the whole land in front of you? Please part from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if to the right, I will go to the left."
10 Lot raised his eyes and saw the whole Jordan plain, that all of it was well watered—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go toward Zoar.
11 Lot chose for himself the whole Jordan plain and traveled eastward; so they parted from one another.
12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents as far as Sodom.
13 The men of Sodom were evil and sinned greatly against the LORD.
14 After Lot had parted from him, the LORD said to Abram, "Raise your eyes and look out from the place where you are, to the north and the south, to the east and the west.
15 All the land you see I will give to you and to your seed forever.
16 I will make your seed like the dust of the earth; if anyone could number the dust of the earth, your seed could be numbered too.
17 Get up, travel through the land, its length and its width, for to you I will give it."
18 Abram moved his tents and came to live by the oaks of Mamre, at Hebron; and there he built an altar to the LORD.