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 Ch. XIV. Lot's cattle, and the Chananites and the Pherezites then inhabited that land; therefore Abram said to Lot, Let there be no quarreling between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren. Behold is not the whole land before thee? Separate from me. If thou incline to the left, I will take the right. Or if thou go to the right, I will go to the left. Then Lot raised his eyes and took a view of all the country bordering on the Jordan. For before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra it was all watered till it reacheth Zogora, like the paradise of God, and like the land of Egypt. So Lot chose for himself all the country bordering on the Jordan; and Lot removed to the eastern border. And the brothers separated on from the other. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan; and Lot dwelt in a city of the borderers and pitched his tent among the Sodomites, though the men of Sodom were wicked and very great sinners in the sight of the Lord.

And God said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, Raise thy eyes and look from the place where thou now art, to the north and south and east and west. For all the land which thou seest I will give to thee and thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed like the dust of the earth. If any can count the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered. Arise and travel through the land, the length and the breadth thereof, for to thee I will give it and to thy seed for ever. Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt near the Oak of Mambre, which was by Chebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.

And it came to pass in the reign of Amarphal king of Sennaar, and of Arioch king of Ellasar, that Chodollogomar king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, made war on Balla king of Sodom, and on Barsa king of Gomorra, and on Senaar king of Adama, and Sumobor king of Seboeim, and the king of Balak which is Segor. All these met together on the salt vale, which is now the sea of salt. Twelve years they had served Chodollogomar, but in the thirteenth year they revolted. And in the fourteenth year came Chodollogomar and the kings with him, and having subdued the giants in Astaroth and Karnain, and mighty nations with them namely, the