5 Abram and his nephew Lot were still travelling together. And just like Abram, Lot had a big mob of sheep, goats, cattle and workers with him.
8 Abram said to Lot, “I don't like this trouble. You and I are close relations, and I do not want any trouble between us. And I don't want our workers arguing and fighting one another.
9 I think we should split up. Take a look at all this country and you will see that there is plenty of room for both of us. I want you to pick which part of the country you want to live in and I will go somewhere else. If you pick the country to the east side, then I will take the country to the west but if you pick the west country, then I will take the country to the east.” Abram and Lot split camp to stop trouble|src="CO00647b.tif" size="col" copy="David Cook" ref="13:9"
13 The people that lived in Sodom were very bad. They were always going against God and doing bad things all the time.
14 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Look at all the country around you. Look to the north, to the south, to the east and to the west.
15 I am going to give you all the country that you can see. All that country will be for you, your children, your grandchildren and all the families that will come from you. It will be their country forever.
16 Look at the ground you are standing on Abram, there is a lot dirt. Your family will be like that dirt, there will be so many people that no-one can count them.
17 Abram, get up, walk everywhere and look at all the country that I am giving to you.”
18 So Abram went to live near the Great Trees of Mamre near a town called Hebron. Abram made his camp there, and he built another altar of stones so that he could burn animals to show respect to God.