2. and Abram [is] exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
3. 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--
4. unto the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah.
5. And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents;
6. 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;
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.'
10. 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,
11. 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;