Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Yarden, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sedom and `Amorah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Tzo`ar.
Genesis 13:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) So Lot chose the Plain of the Yarden for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley and [he] traveled east. So they separated. American Standard Version (1901) So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Common English Bible So Lot chose for himself the entire Jordan Valley. Lot set out toward the east, and they separated from each other. Catholic Public Domain Version And Lot chose for himself the region around the Jordan, and he withdrew by way of the east. And they were divided, one brother from the other. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other. |
Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Yarden, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sedom and `Amorah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Tzo`ar.
Avram lived in the land of Kena`an, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sedom.
The LORD said to Avram, after Lot was separated from him, *Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.*
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, *Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!*
I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
As for the holy ones who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gil`ad, and Eretz-Yisra'el, shall be the Yarden; from the [north] border to the east sea shall you measure. This is the east side.
not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.