The Land Cannot Sustain Them

1So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the Negev.

2Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.

3And he journeyed by stages from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

4to the place of the altar that he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

5And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

6And the land could not support them living together, because their possessions were too great for them to live together.

7And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling in the land at that time.