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Genesis 13 ERV · ERV Bible Reading

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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis 13.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram returns to Canaan.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Abram left Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: He traveled through the Negev with his wife and everything he owned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot was also with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: At this time Abram was very rich.
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  SPEAKER_00: He had many animals and much silver and gold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram continued traveling around.
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  SPEAKER_00: He left the Negev and went back to Bethel.
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  SPEAKER_00: He went to the place between the city of Bethel and Ai where he and his family had camped before.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was where Abram had built an altar earlier, so he worshipped the Lord there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram and Lot separate.
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  SPEAKER_00: During this time Lot was also traveling with Abram.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot had many animals and tents.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram and Lot had so many animals that the land could not support both of them together.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Canaanites and the Parazites were also living in this land at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The shepherds of Abram and Lot began to argue.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Abram said to Lot, there should be no arguing between you and me, or between your people and my people.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are all brothers.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should separate.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can choose any place you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you go to the left I will go to the right, and if you go to the right I will go to the left.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot looked and saw the whole Jordan Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: He saw there was much water there.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  SPEAKER_00: At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord's garden.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was good land like the land of Egypt, so Lot chose to live in the Jordan Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: The two men separated, and Lot began traveling east.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abram stayed in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived among the cities in the valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lot moved as far as Sodom and made his camp there.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord knew that the people of Sodom were very evil sinners.
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  SPEAKER_00: After Lot left, the Lord said to Abram, Look around you, look north, south, east, west.
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  SPEAKER_00: All this land that you see I will give to you and your people who live after you.
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  SPEAKER_00: This will be your land forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will make your people so many that they will be like the dust of the earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: If people could count all the particles of dust on earth, they could count your people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go, walk through your land I now give to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Abram moved his tents.
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  SPEAKER_00: He went to live near the big trees of Mamre.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was near the city of Hebron.
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  SPEAKER_00: There he built an altar to honor the Lord.