And Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev, with his wife and everything he owned; and Lot went with him. And Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold. And he traveled by stages from the Negev to the place between Beth-El and Ai where he had pitched his tent before, where he had built an altar and invoked the Lord’s name.
And Lot too had many sheep, oxen, and camels. And there was quarreling between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s. (The Canaanites and the Perizzites were still living in the land at that time.) And Abram said to Lot, “Since we are kinsmen, let us have no conflict between you and me, or between your people and mine. Isn’t the whole country open for you to live in? So please go your own way: if you go left, I will go right; if you go right, I will go left.”
And Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, all the way to Zoar, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt (this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah). So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan, and he traveled east and pitched his tent near Sodom.
And after Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Look around now, north, south, east, and west: all the land that you see, I give to you and to your descendants for all time. And I will make your descendants as numberless as the dust of the earth: if anyone could count up the dust of the earth, then your descendants couldbe counted. Get up now and walk through the land, through the length and breadth of it: I give it to you.”
Then Abram moved his tent and settled in Hebron, by the great oaks of Mamre, and built an altar to the Lord there.