🌱WEB · Genesis 13:7
What does Genesis 13:7 mean?
"There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time."
— Genesis 13:7 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.
Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
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