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¹Avram; kendisi, karısı, sahip olduğu her şey ve kendisiyle birlikte Lut ile birlikte Mısır'dan yukarıya, Negev çölüne doğru çıktı.

²Avram; sürüler, gümüş ve altın bakımından aşırı derecede zengindi.

³Çöle geldiği yoldan geri dönerek Beytel'e, daha önce Beytel ile Aggai arasında çadırının kurulmuş olduğu yere kadar ilerledi;

⁴başlangıçta orada yapmış olduğu sunağın bulunduğu yere. Ve Avram orada Rab'bin adını yakararak andı.

⁵Avram'la birlikte yolculuk eden Lut'un da koyunları, sığırları ve çadırları vardı.

⁶Birlikte yerleşip yaşamaları için toprak onlara yeterli alan sağlamıyordu; çünkü malları çoktu ve birlikte yerleşip yaşamaları için toprak onlara yetmiyordu.

⁷Avram'ın sürülerinin çobanları ile Lut'un sürülerinin çobanları arasında kavga çıktı. O sırada Kenanlılar ve Ferezliler de o ülkede yerleşmiş durumdaydılar.

⁸Avram Lut'a, "Benimle senin aranda, benim çobanlarımla senin çobanların arasında hiçbir kavga olmasın; çünkü bizler kardeş insanlarız" dedi.

⁹"Bütün bu topraklar önünde durmuyor mu? Benden ayrıl; eğer sen sola gidersen ben sağa giderim, eğer sen sağa gidersen ben sola giderim."

¹⁰Lut gözlerini kaldırıp Şeria havzasının her yanına baktı; Rab Sodom ve Gomora'yı yok etmeden önce, Zogora'ya varıncaya dek her yer Rab'bin bahçesi gibi, Mısır ülkesi gibi sulanmaktaydı.

¹¹Lut kendine bütün Şeria havzasını seçti ve doğu yönünden göç etti; böylece her biri kardeşinden ayrıldı.

¹²Avram Kenan ülkesinde yaşadı; Lut ise havzanın şehirlerinde yaşadı ve Sodom sınırları içinde çadır kurdu.

¹³Sodom halkı ise Rab'bin huzurunda son derece kötü ve günahkardı.

¹⁴Lut kendisinden ayrıldıktan sonra Tanrı Avram'a, "Gözlerini kaldır ve şimdi bulunduğun yerden kuzeye, güneye, doğuya ve batı denizine doğru bak" dedi.

¹⁵"Çünkü gördüğün bütün bu toprakları sonsuza dek sana ve senin soyuna vereceğim."

¹⁶"Senin soyunu yeryüzünün kumu kadar çoğaltacağım; öyle ki, eğer biri yeryüzünün kumunu sayabilirse, senin soyun da sayılabilecektir."

¹⁷"Ayağa kalk, ülkeyi enine boyuna baştan başa dolaş; çünkü onu sana ve soyuna sonsuza dek vereceğim."

¹⁸Avram çadırını söküp göç etti ve Hevron'da bulunan Mamre meşesinin yanına gelip yerleşti; orada Rab'be bir sunak inşa etti.

¹ΑΝΕΒΗ δὲ ῞Αβραμ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, αὐτὸς καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντα τὰ αὐτοῦ καὶ Λὼτ μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ, εἰς τὴν ἔρημον.

²῞Αβραμ δὲ ἦν πλούσιος σφόδρα κτήνεσι καὶ ἀργυρίῳ καὶ χρυσίῳ.

³καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὅθεν ἦλθεν εἰς τὴν ἔρημον ἕως Βαιθήλ, ἕως τοῦ τόπου, οὗ ἦν ἡ σκηνὴ αὐτοῦ τὸ πρότερον, ἀνὰ μέσον Βαιθὴλ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον ᾿Αγγαί,

⁴εἰς τὸν τόπον τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου, οὗ ἐποίησεν ἐκεῖ τὴν ἀρχήν· καὶ ἐπεκαλέσατο ἐκεῖ ῞Αβραμ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Κυρίου.

⁵καὶ Λὼτ τῷ συμπορευομένῳ μετὰ ῞Αβραμ ἦν πρόβατα καὶ βόες καὶ σκηναί.

⁶καὶ οὐκ ἐχώρει αὐτοὺς ἡ γῆ κατοικεῖν ἅμα, ὅτι ἦν τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῶν πολλά, καὶ οὐκ ἐχώρει αὐτοὺς ἡ γῆ κατοικεῖν ἅμα.

⁷καὶ ἐγένετο μάχη ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ποιμένων τῶν κτηνῶν τοῦ ῞Αβραμ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ποιμένων τῶν κτηνῶν τοῦ Λώτ· οἱ δὲ Χαναναῖοι καὶ οἱ Φερεζαῖοι τότε κατῴκουν τὴν γῆν.

⁸εἶπε δὲ ῞Αβραμ τῷ Λώτ· μὴ ἔστω μάχη ἀνὰ μέσον ἐμοῦ καὶ σοῦ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ποιμένων μου καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ποιμένων σου, ὅτι ἄνθρωποι ἀδελφοί ἐσμεν ἡμεῖς.

⁹οὐκ ἰδοὺ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ ἐναντίον σου ἐστί; διαχωρίσθητι ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ· εἰ σὺ εἰς ἀριστερά, ἐγὼ εἰς δεξιά· εἰ δὲ σὺ εἰς δεξιά, ἐγὼ εἰς ἀριστερά.

¹⁰καὶ ἐπάρας Λὼτ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτοῦ, ἐπεῖδε πᾶσαν τὴν περίχωρον τοῦ ᾿Ιορδάνου, ὅτι πᾶσα ἦν ποτιζομένη πρὸ τοῦ καταστρέψαι τὸν Θεὸν Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα, ὡς ὁ παράδεισος τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ ὡς ἡ γῆ Αἰγύπτου, ἕως ἐλθεῖν εἰς Ζόγορα.

¹¹καὶ ἐξελέξατο ἑαυτῷ Λὼτ πᾶσαν τὴν περίχωρον τοῦ ᾿Ιορδάνου, καὶ ἀπῇρε Λὼτ ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν, καὶ διεχωρίσθησαν ἕκαστος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ.

¹²῞Αβραμ δὲ κατῴκησεν ἐν γῇ Χαναάν, Λὼτ δὲ κατῴκησεν ἐν πόλει τῶν περιχώρων καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν Σοδόμοις·

¹³οἱ δὲ ἄνθρωποι οἱ ἐν Σοδόμοις πονηροὶ καὶ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἐναντίον τοῦ Θεοῦ σφόδρα.

¹⁴῾Ο δὲ Θεὸς εἶπε τῷ ῞Αβραμ μετὰ τὸ διαχωρισθῆναι τὸν Λὼτ ἀπ᾿ αὐτοῦ· ἀνάβλεψον τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς σου καὶ ἴδε ἀπὸ τοῦ τόπου, οὗ νῦν σύ εἶ, πρὸς βορρᾶν καὶ λίβα καὶ ἀνατολὰς καὶ θάλασσαν·

¹⁵ὅτι πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, ἣν σὺ ὁρᾷς, σοὶ δώσω αὐτὴν καὶ τῷ σπέρματί σου ἕως αἰῶνος.

¹⁶καὶ ποιήσω τὸ σπέρμα σου ὡς τὴν ἄμμον τῆς γῆς· εἰ δύναταί τις ἐξαριθμῆσαι τὴν ἄμμον τῆς γῆς, καὶ τὸ σπέρμα σου ἐξαριθμηθήσεται.

¹⁷ἀναστὰς διόδευσον τὴν γῆν εἴς τε τὸ μῆκος αὐτῆς καὶ εἰς τὸ πλάτος, ὅτι σοὶ δώσω αὐτὴν καὶ τῷ σπέρματί σου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

¹⁸καὶ ἀποσκηνώσας ῞Αβραμ, ἐλθὼν κατῴκησε παρὰ τὴν δρῦν τὴν Μαμβρῆ, ἣ ἦν ἐν Χεβρώμ, καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν ἐκεῖ θυσιαστήριον τῷ Κυρίῳ.

¹AND Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the wilderness.

²And Abram was very rich in cattle, and silver, and gold.

³And he went [to the place] whence he came, into the wilderness as far as Baethel, as far as the place where his tent was before, between Baethel and Aggai,

⁴to the place of the altar, which he built there at first, and Abram there called on the name of the Lord.

⁵And Lot who went out with Abram had sheep, and oxen, and tents.

⁶And the land was not large enough for them to live together, because their possessions were great; and the land was not large enough for them to live together.

⁷And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen of Lot's cattle, and the Chananites and the Pherezites then inhabited the land.

⁸And Abram said to Lot, Let there not be a strife between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen, for we are brethren.

⁹Lo! is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself from me; if thou [goest] to the left, I will go to the right, and if thou goest to the right, I will go to the left.

¹⁰And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until thou come to Zogora.

¹¹And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan.

¹²And Lot dwelt in a city of the neighbouring people, and pitched his tent in Sodom.

¹³But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.

¹⁴And God said to Abram after Lot was separated from him, Look up with thine eyes, and behold from the place where thou now art northward and southward, and eastward and seaward;

¹⁵for all the land which thou seest, I will give it to thee and to thy seed for ever.

¹⁶And I will make thy seed like the dust of the earth; if any one is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered.

¹⁷Arise and traverse the land, both in the length of it and in the breadth; for to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

¹⁸And Abram having removed his tent, came and dwelt by the oak of Mambre, which was in Chebrom, and he there built an altar to the Lord.