13. But the men of Sodom were wicked and exceedingly great sinners against the Lord.
14. The Lord said to Abram after Lot had left him, Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
15. For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your posterity forever. [Acts 7:5.]
16. And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then could your descendants also be counted. [Gen. 28:14.]
17. Arise, walk through the land, the length of it and the breadth of it, for I will give it to you.
18. Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt among the oaks or terebinths of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.