1. From Egypt Abram went up to the Negeb with his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot went with him.
2. Now Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.
3. From the Negeb he traveled by stages toward Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly stood,
4. the site where he had first built the altar; and there Abram invoked the Lord by name.
5. Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,
6. so that the land could not support them if they stayed together; their possessions were so great that they could not live together.
7. There were quarrels between the herders of Abram’s livestock and the herders of Lot’s livestock. At this time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.
8. So Abram said to Lot: “Let there be no strife between you and me, or between your herders and my herders, for we are kindred.
9. Is not the whole land available? Please separate from me. If you prefer the left, I will go to the right; if you prefer the right, I will go to the left.”
10. Lot looked about and saw how abundantly watered the whole Jordan Plain was as far as Zoar, like the Lord’s own garden, or like Egypt. This was before the Lord had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.