Genesis 13:10-18

10Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the 12valley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere--this was before the Lord 3destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah--like 4the garden of the Lord, 5like the land of Egypt as you go to 6Zoar. 11So Lot chose for himself all the 7valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other. 12Abram 8settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot 9settled in 10the cities of the 11valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom. 13Now 12the men of Sodom were wicked 13exceedingly and 14sinners against the Lord.

14The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “15Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, 16northward and southward and eastward and westward; 1517for all the land which you see, 18I will give it to you and to your 19descendants forever. 16I will make your 20descendants 21as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your 22descendants can also be numbered. 17Arise, 23walk about the land through its length and breadth; for 24I will give it to you.” 18Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the 2526oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built 27an altar to the Lord.