^{10 Ref} And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

^{11 Ref} So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

^{12 Ref} Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

^{13 Ref} Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

^{14 Ref} And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

^{15 Ref} For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

^{16 Ref} And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

^{17 Ref} Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.