- 那地容不下他们,因为他们的财物甚多,使他们不能同居。
- 当时,迦南人与比利洗人在那地居住。亚伯兰的牧人和罗得的牧人相争。
- 亚伯兰就对罗得说,你我不可相争,你的牧人和我的牧人也不可相争,因为我们是骨肉(原文作弟兄)。
- 遍地不都在你眼前麽。请你离开我,你向左,我就向右。你向右,我就向左。
- 罗得举目看见约旦河的全平原,直到琐珥,都是滋润的,那地在耶和华未灭所多玛,蛾摩拉以先如同耶和华的园子,也像埃及地。
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- 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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