{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/genesis/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:18:47.989Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Genesis","bookSlug":"genesis","chapter":13,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":14,"totalChapters":50,"totalVerses":18},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Abram said to Lot, |Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.|"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, |Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.|"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 13 (WEB)","markdown":"[Genesis 13](https://primebible.com/web/genesis/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/genesis/13 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}