Genesis 13 (NET)

Genesis 13:1¹So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 24:7Gen 12:9-20Josh 10:401 Sam 27:10Gen 20:1Gen 21:33Josh 18:5

Genesis 13:2²(Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 24:35Ps 112:1-3Gen 26:12-13Job 22:21-25Prov 10:22Deut 8:18Job 1:10Job 1:31 Sam 2:71 Tim 4:8

Genesis 13:3³And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:6Gen 12:8-9

Genesis 13:4⁴This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 29:12Eph 6:18-19Gen 12:7-8Isa 58:9Ps 116:2Ps 65:1-2Zeph 3:91 Cor 1:2Ps 107:1Ps 107:15

Genesis 13:5⁵Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 25:27Gen 4:20Jer 49:29

Genesis 13:6⁶But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 36:6-71 Tim 6:9Eccl 5:10-11Luke 12:17-18

Genesis 13:7⁷So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 26:20Gen 12:6Jas 3:161 Pet 2:12Gal 5:20Gen 34:30Jas 4:11 Cor 3:31 Thess 4:12Col 4:5

Genesis 13:8⁸Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 6:6-7Acts 7:26Ps 133:11 John 2:9-111 John 3:14-191 John 4:20-211 Pet 3:81 Pet 4:82 Pet 1:7Eph 4:2-3

Genesis 13:9⁹Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:8-12Gen 20:15Gen 34:10Heb 12:141 Cor 6:7Ps 120:7Rom 12:18Jas 3:13-18

Genesis 13:10¹⁰Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well watered (this was before the Lord obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 34:3Isa 51:3Gen 14:8Gen 2:8-10Ezek 28:13Gen 14:2Joel 2:31 John 2:15-161 Kgs 7:46Ezek 31:8

Genesis 13:11¹¹Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 13:91 Pet 2:17Heb 10:25Prov 27:10Ps 119:63Gen 13:14Ps 16:3Gen 19:17

Genesis 13:12¹²Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 19:29Gen 14:12Gen 19:11 Cor 15:332 Pet 2:7-8Gen 19:25Ps 26:5

Genesis 13:13¹³(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.)Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:102 Pet 2:6-8Jude 1:7Isa 3:8-9Jer 23:24Rom 1:27Ezek 16:46-50Gen 18:20Heb 4:13Matt 9:13

Genesis 13:14¹⁴After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 3:27Gen 28:14Isa 49:18Isa 60:4Gen 13:10

Genesis 13:15¹⁵I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 20:7Gen 12:7Gen 15:18Acts 7:5Gen 35:12Ps 37:22Neh 9:7-8Ps 105:9-12Ps 37:29Deut 26:2-4

Genesis 13:16¹⁶And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:14Num 23:10Exod 32:13Gen 22:17Gen 32:121 Kgs 3:8Rom 4:16-18Gen 15:51 Chr 21:51 Chr 27:23

Genesis 13:17¹⁷Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 13:15Num 13:17-24

Genesis 13:18¹⁸So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 14:13Gen 18:1Gen 35:27Gen 8:20Gen 12:7-8Ps 16:81 Tim 2:8Gen 13:4Gen 37:14Num 13:22