1 亚伯兰带着妻子和所有的一切， 以及罗得， 一同从埃及上到南地去。 2 亚伯兰有很多牲畜和金银。 3 他从南地一站一站往前走， 到伯特利去； 到伯特利和艾城中间， 就是他从前支搭帐棚的地方， 4 也是他筑头一座祭坛的地方， 亚伯兰就在那里求告耶和华的名。 5 和亚伯兰同行的罗得， 也有羊群、牛群和帐棚。 6 那地容不下他们住在一起； 因为他们的财物很多， 所以他们再也不能住在一起。 7 牧养亚伯兰牲畜的和牧养罗得牲畜的， 起了纷争； 当时迦南人和比利洗人还住在那地。 8 亚伯兰就对罗得说： "你我之间， 切不可纷争； 你的牧人和我的牧人之间， 也不可纷争， 因为我们是至亲。 9 全地不都是在你面前吗？请你离开我吧！ 你若向左， 我就向右； 你若向右， 我就向左。" 10 罗得举目， 看见约旦河整个平原， 直到琐珥， 都有水灌溉； 在耶和华毁灭所多玛和蛾摩拉之前， 这地好像耶和华的园子， 也像埃及地一样。 11 罗得选择了约旦河整个平原， 于是向东移动， 他们就彼此分开了。 12 亚伯兰住在迦南地； 罗得住在平原的城市中， 渐渐挪移帐棚， 直到所多玛。 13 在耶和华看来， 所多玛人是罪大恶极的。 14 罗得离开亚伯兰以后， 耶和华对亚伯兰说： "你要举目， 从你所在的地方向东南西北观看。 15 你看见的地方， 我都要赐给你和你的后裔， 直到永远。 16 我要使你的后裔好像地上灰尘那么多； 若能数算地上的灰尘， 才能数算你的后裔。 17 你起来， 纵横走遍这地， 因为我必把这地赐给你。" 18 于是， 亚伯兰渐渐挪移帐棚， 来到希伯仑幔利的橡树附近， 在那里居住， 也在那里为耶和华筑了一座祭坛。

1 And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south;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;12 Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;13 and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.14 And Jehovah said unto Abram, after Lot`s being parted from him, `Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou [art], northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward;15 for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed -- to the age.16 And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered;17 rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.`18 And Abram tenteth, and cometh, and dwelleth among the oaks of Mamre, which [are] in Hebron, and buildeth there an altar to Jehovah.