^{10 Ref} And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it `is' all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,

^{11 Ref} and Lot chooseth for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeyeth from the east, and they are parted -- a man from his companion;

^{12 Ref} Abram hath dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot hath dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and tenteth unto Sodom;

^{13 Ref} and the men of Sodom `are' evil, and sinners before Jehovah exceedingly.

^{14 Ref} And Jehovah said unto Abram, after Lot's being parted from him, `Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and look from the place where thou `art', northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward;

^{15 Ref} for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed -- to the age.

^{16 Ref} And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered;

^{17 Ref} rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'