The Book of Genesis 13 |
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
Genesis 13:1 | And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south; |
Genesis 13:2 | and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold. |
Genesis 13:3 | And he goeth on his journeyings from the south, even unto Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the commencement, between Bethel and Hai |
Genesis 13:4 | unto the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah. |
Genesis 13:5 | And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents; |
Genesis 13:6 | and the land hath not suffered them to dwell together, for their substance hath been much, and they have not been able to dwell together; |
Genesis 13:7 | and there is a strife between those feeding Abram`s cattle and those feeding Lot`s cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite [are] then dwelling in the land. |
Genesis 13:8 | And Abram saith unto Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we [are] men brethren. |
Genesis 13:9 | Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.` |
Genesis 13:10 | And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it [is] all a watered country (before Jehovah`s destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah`s garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar, |
Genesis 13:11 | and Lot chooseth for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeyeth from the east, and they are parted a man from his companion; |
Genesis 13:12 | Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom; |
Genesis 13:13 | and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly. |
Genesis 13:14 | And Jehovah said unto Abram, after Lot`s being parted from him, `Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou [art], northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward; |
Genesis 13:15 | for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed to the age. |
Genesis 13:16 | And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered; |
Genesis 13:17 | rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.` |
Genesis 13:18 | And Abram tenteth, and cometh, and dwelleth among the oaks of Mamre, which [are] in Hebron, and buildeth there an altar to Jehovah. |