New English Translation

Genesis 13:10-18 New English Translation (NET)

10. Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered (before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

11. Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.

12. Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

13. (Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.)

14. After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

15. I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

16. And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

17. Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

18. So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.