{"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/ylt/genesis/13","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:06:42.194Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Genesis","bookSlug":"genesis","chapter":13,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":12,"nextChapter":14,"totalChapters":50,"totalVerses":18},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"and Abram is exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And he goeth on his journeyings from the south, even unto Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the commencement, between Bethel and Hai — "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"unto the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"and the land hath not suffered them to dwell together, for their substance hath been much, and they have not been able to dwell together;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite are then dwelling in the land."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And Abram saith unto Lot, 'Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we are men — brethren."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.'"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it is all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"and Lot chooseth for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeyeth from the east, and they are parted — a man from his companion;"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"and the men of Sodom are evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And Jehovah said unto Abram, after Lot's being parted from him, 'Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed — to the age."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And Abram tenteth, and cometh, and dwelleth among the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and buildeth there an altar to Jehovah."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 13 (YLT)","markdown":"[Genesis 13](https://primebible.com/ylt/genesis/13)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/genesis/13 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}