Today's Scripture [1-24-13]

   And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his
wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into
the south.
   And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver,
and in gold.
   And he went on his journeys from the south e-
ven to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had
been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
   Unto the place of the altar, which he had made
there at the first: and there Abram called on the
name of the LORD.
   And Lot also, which went with Abram, had
flocks, and herds, and tents.
   And the land was not able to bear them, that
they dwell together: for their substance was great,
so that they could not dwell together.
   And there was a strife between the herdmen of
Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle:
and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then
in the land.
   And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no
strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and be-
tween my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be
brethren.
   Is not the whole land before thee? Separate
thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the
left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou de-
part to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
   And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the
plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every
where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah. . .
   Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and
Lot journeyed east: and they separated them-
selves the one from the other.
   Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot
dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his
tent toward Sodom.
   But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners
before the LORD exceedingly.
   And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot
was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes,
and look from the place where thou art northward,
and southward, and eastward, and westward:
   For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I
give it, and to thy seed for ever.
   And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:
so that if a man can number the dust of the earth,
then shall thy seed also be numbered.
   Arise, walk through the land in the length of it
and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
   Then Abram removed his tent, and came and
dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron,
and built there an altar unto the LORD.

                         ~ Genesis 13:1-10a, 11-18