So Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives. Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

10 Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain[a] of the Jordan(A) as far as Zoar(B) was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden(C) and the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:10 Lit circle; i.e., probably the large round plain where the Jordan River empties into the Dead Sea, also in v. 11

So Abram said to Lot,(A) “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me,(B) or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.(C) 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.”(D)

10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain(E) of the Jordan toward Zoar(F) was well watered, like the garden of the Lord,(G) like the land of Egypt.(H) (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom(I) and Gomorrah.)(J)

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