Genesis 13:11
9 Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
10 And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
13 But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
- KJV
- Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- WEB
- So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.
- ASV
- So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- DARBY
- And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other:
- BLB
- And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed toward the east. And they separated, a man from his brother.
- ÅB
- Og Lot valgte for seg hele Jordan-sletten. Så dro Lot østover, og de skiltes fra hverandre.
- OTB
- Så valgte Lot for seg selv hele Jordan-sletten, og dro østover. Slik skiltes de.
- B1930
- Og Lot valgte for sig hele Jordan-sletten. Så drog Lot østover, og de skiltes fra hverandre.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
Read in contextHebrews 10:25
Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Read in contextProverbs 27:10
Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
Read in context1 Peter 2:17
Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
Read in contextPsalms 119:63
I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
Read in contextGenesis 13:14
After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
Read in contextPsalms 16:3
As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
Read in contextGenesis 19:17
As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
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