12. Abram lived in the land of Canaan. But Lot lived among the cities in the Jordan Valley. He moved very near to Sodom.
13. Now the people of Sodom were very evil. They were always sinning against the Lord.
14. After Lot left, the Lord said to Abram, “Look all around you. Look north and south and east and west.
15. All this land that you see I will give to you and your descendants forever.
16. I will make your descendants as many as the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust on the earth, he could count your people.
17. Get up! Walk through all this land. I am now giving it to you.”
18. So Abram moved his tents. He went to live near the great trees of Mamre. This was at the city of Hebron. There he built an altar to the Lord.