So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
Parallel translations
- WEB So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- KJV Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- NKJV Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other.
- NASB So Lot chose for himself all the vicinity of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. So they separated from each other.
- NLT Lot chose for himself the whole Jordan Valley to the east of them. He went there with his flocks and servants and parted company with his uncle Abram.
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Quick answer
Lot chose the Jordan plain and they separated. His self-serving choice moves him toward danger.
Overview
Lot takes the seemingly best land for himself and parts from Abram, traveling east. The separation, while peaceful, marks Lot's gradual drift toward Sodom and trouble. His choice contrasts with Abram's faith-filled deference, illustrating the difference between living by sight and living by promise.
Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 13:9Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
- Prov 27:10Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
- Heb 10:25Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
- 1 Pet 2:17Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
- Ps 119:63I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
- Gen 13:14After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
- Ps 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
- Gen 19:17As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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