Genesis 13:5-13

5Lot was travelling with Abram. Lot also had many cows, sheep and tents.

6But the land could not grow enough food for all of them to eat. They could not all live together in the same place, because they had so many animals and people with them.

7Abram's shepherds and Lot's shepherds began to quarrel with each other. (At that time, Canaanites and Perizzites also lived in the land.)

8Abram said to Lot, ‘We must not quarrel with each other. Your shepherds and my shepherds must not quarrel with each other. Remember that we belong to the same family.

9Look everywhere! There is enough land for all of us. We must go different ways. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left.’

10Lot looked up and he saw the flat land of Jordan, as far as Zoar. He saw that it had lots of water, like the garden of the Lord. It was good land, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed the cities there called Sodom and Gomorrah.)

11So Lot chose for himself the valley of the Jordan River. He travelled towards the east.

12Abram stayed in the land of Canaan and he lived there. But Lot lived near the cities that were in the Jordan Valley. He put up his tents near the city of Sodom.

13The people of Sodom were very wicked. They did not obey the Lord at all.