Listening A1: Genesis Chapter 1 - Genesis 13

Abram left Egypt with his wife, everything he had, and Lot, and they went to the south.

Abram had much cattle, silver, and gold.

He went on trips from the south to Beth-el, to the place where his tent was before, between Beth-el and Ai, to the place of the altar he had made first, and there Abram prayed to Jehovah.

Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

The land could not give them enough space to stay together because they had a lot of things.

The men who cared for Abram's animals had fights with the men who cared for Lot's animals; then the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land.

Abram said to Lot, "Please do not fight with me or with our men, because we are brothers."

Is not all the land in front of you? Please move away from me. If you go left, I will go right. If you go right, I will go left.

Lot looked all around the plain of the Jordan. It was good for water everywhere, like Jehovah's garden and like the land of Egypt, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, as you go to Zoar.

Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan and went east.

Then they went their own ways.

Abram stayed in the land of Canaan.

Lot stayed in the cities of the plain and moved his tent close to Sodom.

The people of Sodom were very bad and did many wrong things against Jehovah.

After Lot was away from him, Jehovah said to Abram, "Now lift your eyes and look around from where you are to the north, south, east, and west."

"I will give you all the land you see, and your children will have it forever."

"I will make your children as many as the dust of the earth. If a person can count the dust, he can count your children."

"Get up and walk through the land from end to end, because I will give it to you."

Abram moved his tent and lived by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he made an altar there to Jehovah.