13 ¹ Abram went up from Egypt into the Negeb, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot went with him.

13 ² Abram was now very rich in cattle and in silver and gold. 13 ³ From the Negeb he journeyed by stages to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where he had pitched his tent in the beginning, 13 ⁴ where he had set up an altar on the first occasion and had invoked the LORD by name. 13 ⁵ Now Lot was travelling with Abram, and he too possessed sheep and cattle and tents. 13 ⁶ The land could not support them both together; for their livestock were so numerous that they could not settle in the same district, 13 ⁷ and there were quarrels between Abram's herdsmen and Lot's. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were then living in the land.

13 ⁸ So Abram said to Lot, 'Let there be no quarrelling between us, between my herdsmen and yours; for we are close kinsmen. 13 ⁹ The whole country is there in front of you; let us part company. If you go left, I will go right; if you go right, I will go left.' 13 ¹⁰ Lot looked up and saw how well-watered the whole Plain of the Jordan was; all the way to Zoar it was like the Garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. This was before the LORD had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. 13 ¹¹ So Lot chose all the Plain of the Jordan and took the road on the east side. Thus they parted company. 13 ¹² Abram settled in the land of Canaan; but Lot settled among the cities of the Plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. 13 ¹³ Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.