(A)So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are relatives! Is the entire land not before you? Please separate from me; if you choose the left, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right, then I will go to the left.” 10 Lot raised his eyes and saw all the [a]vicinity of the (B)Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before the Lord (C)destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like (D)the garden of the Lord, (E)like the land of Egypt [b]going toward (F)Zoar.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 13:10 Lit circle
  2. Genesis 13:10 Lit as you go

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) 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)

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