GENESIS 13

Genesis 13 is a scene setting story letting the reader paint the picture in his or her own mind.

GENESIS 13

ABRAM AND LOT SEPARATE

1  So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.

2  Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

3  From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier

4  and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.

"Hi Lord, this is Abram, just checking in. I have arrived with Lot and just waiting further instructions. Lot's being a pain in the ass but I think I can deal with him.

5  Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

6  But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.

7  And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.

Which is why there was not enough room. Basically Abram and Lot were passive-aggressive invaders of the land.

8  So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.

9  Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”

10   Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

11  So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:

12  Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.

Worse choice ever! Well, how was Lot to know that Sodom was to be forever known as the buggering city? 

13  Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.

14  The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.

15  All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 

16  I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 

17  Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”

18  So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.

And the adventure begins...