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4 This was where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of Jehovah.
5 Lot moved about with Abram. He also had flocks and herds and tents.
6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together. Their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
7 Quarreling arose between Abram’s herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
8 Abram said to Lot: »Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
9 »Is not the whole land before you? Let us part company. 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 up and saw that the district of the Jordan River was well watered, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. This was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
11 So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
13 The men of Sodom were wicked and sinned greatly against Jehovah.