1 ascendit ergo Abram de Aegypto
ipse et uxor eius et omnia quae habebat
et Loth cum eo ad australem plagam
2 erat autem dives valde in possessione argenti et auri
3 reversusque est per iter quo venerat a meridie in Bethel
usque ad locum ubi prius fixerat tabernaculum inter Bethel et Ai
4 in loco altaris quod fecerat prius et invocavit ibi nomen Domini
5 sed et Loth qui erat cum Abram
fuerunt greges ovium et armenta et tabernacula
6 nec poterat eos capere terra ut habitarent simul
erat quippe substantia eorum multa
et non quibant habitare communiter
7 unde et facta est rixa inter pastores gregum Abram et Loth
eo autem tempore Chananeus et Ferezeus habitabant in illa terra
8 dixit ergo Abram ad Loth ne quaeso sit iurgium inter me et te
et inter pastores meos et pastores tuos
fratres enim sumus
9 ecce universa terra coram te est recede a me obsecro
si ad sinistram ieris ego ad dexteram tenebo
si tu dexteram elegeris ego ad sinistram pergam
10 elevatis itaque Loth oculis vidit omnem circa regionem Iordanis
quae universa inrigabatur
antequam subverteret Dominus Sodomam et Gomorram
sicut paradisus Domini et sicut Aegyptus venientibus in Segor
11 elegitque sibi Loth regionem circa Iordanem et recessit ab oriente
divisique sunt alterutrum a fratre suo
12 Abram habitavit in terra Chanaan
Loth moratus est in oppidis quae erant circa Iordanem
et habitavit in Sodomis
13 homines autem Sodomitae pessimi erant et peccatores coram Domino nimis
14 dixitque Dominus ad Abram
postquam divisus est Loth ab eo
leva oculos tuos et vide a loco in quo nunc es
ad aquilonem et ad meridiem ad orientem et ad occidentem
15 omnem terram quam conspicis
tibi dabo et semini tuo usque in sempiternum
16 faciamque semen tuum sicut pulverem terrae
si quis potest hominum numerare pulverem
semen quoque tuum numerare poterit
17 surge et perambula terram in longitudine et in
latitudine sua
quia tibi daturus sum eam
18 movens igitur Abram tabernaculum suum
venit et habitavit iuxta convallem Mambre quod est in Hebron
aedificavitque ibi altare Domino
1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai; 4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
5 ¶ And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. 8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
14 ¶ And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. 18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.