Genesis 13 Clementine Vulgate
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1 Ascendit ergo Abram de Ægypto, ipse et uxor ejus, et omnia quæ habebat, et Lot cum eo, ad australem plagam.
1 Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.
2 Erat autem dives valde in possessione auri et argenti.
2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
3 Reversusque est per iter, quo venerat, a meridie in Bethel, usque ad locum ubi prius fixerat tabernaculum inter Bethel et Hai,
3 He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
4 in loco altaris quod fecerat prius: et invocavit ibi nomen Domini.
4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.
5 Sed et Lot qui erat cum Abram, fuerunt greges ovium, et armenta, et tabernacula.
5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
6 Nec poterat eos capere terra, ut habitarent simul: erat quippe substantia eorum multa, et nequibant habitare communiter.
6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.
7 Unde et facta est rixa inter pastores gregum Abram et Lot. Eo autem tempore Chananæus et Pherezæus habitabant in terra illa.
7 There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
8 Dixit ergo Abram ad Lot: Ne quæso sit jurgium inter me et te, et inter pastores meos et pastores tuos: fratres enim sumus.
8 Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
9 Ecce universa terra coram te est: recede a me, obsecro: si ad sinistram ieris, ego dexteram tenebo: si tu dexteram elegeris, ego ad sinistram pergam.
9 Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
10 Elevatis itaque Lot oculis, vidit omnem circa regionem Jordanis, quæ universa irrigabatur antequam subverteret Dominus Sodomam et Gomorrham, sicut paradisus Domini, et sicut Ægyptus venientibus in Segor.
10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
11 Elegitque sibi Lot regionem circa Jordanem, et recessit ab oriente: divisique sunt alterutrum a fratre suo.
11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.
12 Abram habitavit in terra Chanaan; Lot vero moratus est in oppidis, quæ erant circa Jordanem, et habitavit in Sodomis.
12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13 Homines autem Sodomitæ pessimi erant, et peccatores coram Domino nimis.
13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
14 Dixitque Dominus ad Abram, postquam divisus est ab eo Lot: Leva oculos tuos et vide a loco, in quo nunc es, ad aquilonem et meridiem, ad orientem et occidentem.
14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
15 Omnem terram, quam conspicis, tibi dabo, et semini tuo usque in sempiternum.
15 for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
16 Faciamque semen tuum sicut pulverem terræ: si quis potest hominum numerare pulverem terræ, semen quoque tuum numerare poterit.
16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
17 Surge, et perambula terram in longitudine et in latitudine sua: quia tibi daturus sum eam.
17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”
18 Movens igitur tabernaculum suum Abram, venit, et habitavit juxta convallem Mambre, quæ est in Hebron: ædificavitque ibi altare Domino.
18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Abraham
Called by God, he left home in faith to become the father of a chosen people.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 12–25
Lot
Abraham's nephew who chose the plain of Jordan and settled near Sodom.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11–14; 19
Places
Hebron
One of the region's oldest cities, holding the patriarchs' burial cave (Machpelah). It was David's first royal capital, over Judah.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 23:19; Genesis 13:18; 2 Samuel 5:3
Cross references (18)
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- 1 Joshua 10:40; Genesis 12:9–20; 2 Samuel 24:7; Genesis 21:33; Genesis 20:1
- 2 Genesis 24:35; Psalm 112:1–3; Genesis 26:12–13; Proverbs 10:22; Job 22:21–25
- 3 Genesis 12:6; Genesis 12:8–9
- 4 Jeremiah 29:12; Ephesians 6:18–19; Isaiah 58:9; Genesis 12:7–8; Psalm 116:2
- 5 Genesis 4:20; Jeremiah 49:29; Genesis 25:27
- 6 Genesis 36:6–7; Luke 12:17–18; Ecclesiastes 5:10–11; 1 Timothy 6:9
- 7 Genesis 26:20; Genesis 12:6; James 3:16; James 4:1; Genesis 34:30
- 8 1 Corinthians 6:6–7; Acts 7:26; Psalm 133:1; Genesis 11:27–31; Proverbs 20:3
- 9 Genesis 20:15; 1 Peter 3:8–12; Genesis 34:10; Hebrews 12:14; Romans 12:18
- 10 Deuteronomy 34:3; Isaiah 51:3; Genesis 14:8; Genesis 2:8–10; Joel 2:3
- 11 Genesis 13:9; Hebrews 10:25; Proverbs 27:10; 1 Peter 2:17; Psalm 119:63
- 12 Genesis 19:29; Genesis 19:1; Genesis 14:12; 1 Corinthians 15:33; Genesis 19:25
- 13 2 Peter 2:10; Jude 7; 2 Peter 2:6–8; Romans 1:27; Isaiah 3:8–9
- 14 Deuteronomy 3:27; Genesis 28:14; Isaiah 49:18; Isaiah 60:4; Genesis 13:10
- 15 2 Chronicles 20:7; Genesis 12:7; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 35:12; Acts 7:5
- 16 Genesis 28:14; Numbers 23:10; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 32:12; Exodus 32:13
- 17 Genesis 13:15; Numbers 13:17–24
- 18 Genesis 14:13; Genesis 18:1; Genesis 35:27; Genesis 8:20; Genesis 12:7–8
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And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, [so that] if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered." And again [the Scripture] saith, "God brought forth Abram, and spake unto him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars if thou be able to number them; …
For all the earth which thou seest, I will give to thee and to thy seed, even for ever." And again He says, "Arise, and go through the length and breadth of the land, since I will give it unto thee;" and [yet] he did not receive an inheritance in it, not even a footstep, but was always a stranger …
Arise, and walk through the land, in the length of it, and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it." It does not clearly appear whether in this promise that also is contained by which he is made the father of all nations.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Read the Scriptures, and thou shall find Abraham to have been a rich man. In order that thou mayest know, that not riches are blamed; Abraham had much gold, silver, cattle, household, was a rich man, and unto his bosom Lazarus, a poor man, was borne up.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
It is certain that the poor man was carried into the bosom of Abraham: of Abraham himself Scripture saith that he had here very much gold and silver, and was rich on the earth. If every one that is rich is hurried away to be tormented, how could Abraham have gone before that poor man, so as to be ready …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)