- 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.
- And quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
- So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
- 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."
- Lot looked up and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
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- 那地容不下他們、因為他們的財物甚多、使他們不能同居。
- 當時迦南人、與比利洗人、在那地居住.亞伯蘭的牧人、和羅得的牧人相爭。
- 亞伯蘭就對羅得說、你我不可相爭、你的牧人和我的牧人也不可相爭、因為我們是骨肉。〔原文作弟兄〕
- 遍地不都在你眼前麼.請你離開我、你向左、我就向右、你向右、我就向左。
- 羅得舉目看見約但河的全平原、直到瑣珥、都是滋潤的、那地在耶和華未滅所多瑪、蛾摩拉以先、如同耶和華的園子、也像埃及地。
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