⁸ So Abram said to Lot,^(A) “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me,^(B) or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.^{(C) 9} Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”^(D)

¹⁰ Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain^(E) of the Jordan toward Zoar^(F) was well watered, like the garden of the Lord,^(G) like the land of Egypt.^(H) (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom^(I) and Gomorrah.)^(J)