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The area where they were was not rich enough for them to dwell together, for they had too many possessions for them to live in the same camp. Because of this a quarrel arose between the herdsmen of Abram and those of Lot. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in that land.)

Abram said to Lot, “Let us not have strife between you and me, between my herdsmen and yours, for we are relatives.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 13:8 Lot is the son of Haran, Abraham’s brother (Gen 11:27, 31); the degree of kinship does not prevent Abraham and Lot being called brothers in some translations.