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Genesis 13
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| 1 ἀνέβη |
1 So Abram came back from Egypt into the south country, with his wife and all that belonged to him; Lot, too, went in his company. 2 Abram was by now the master of rich possessions, with abundance of gold and silver. 3 He took the same road northwards by which he had come, and reached Bethel, and the place between Bethel and Hai where he had pitched his tent before, 4 with the altar still standing there, as he had built it, commemorating the Lord’s name.[1] 5 Lot, his companion, had flocks and herds and a camp of his own, 6 so that there was no room for them to live together on the same land; they could not share a camping-ground, with such great possessions, 7 and already a quarrel had broken out between Abram’s shepherds and Lot’s. In those days, there were Chanaanites and Pherezites living all around, 8 and Abram said to Lot, Pray let us have no strife between us two, between my shepherds and thine; are we not brethren? 9 See, here is the whole land before thee; come, our ways must part. Turn leftwards, and I will keep to the right, or choose the right, and I will go leftwards. 10 Whereupon Lot looked about him, and the great hollow of Jordan met his eye, well watered, in those days before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, like the garden of the Lord itself, or the land of Egypt approached by way of Segor. 11 So Lot chose the hollow of Jordan, and went away to the east, and the two kinsmen parted company. 12 Abram made his dwelling in the land of Chanaan, while Lot found a home among the cities round Jordan, camping at Sodom. 13 They were evil folk that lived at Sodom, wicked in the Lord’s sight beyond all measure. | 1 Ascendit ergo Abram de Ægypto, ipse et uxor ejus, et omnia quæ habebat, et Lot cum eo, ad australem plagam. 2 Erat autem dives valde in possessione auri et argenti. 3 Reversusque est per iter, quo venerat, a meridie in Bethel, usque ad locum ubi prius fixerat tabernaculum inter Bethel et Hai, 4 in loco altaris quod fecerat prius: et invocavit ibi nomen Domini. 5 Sed et Lot qui erat cum Abram, fuerunt greges ovium, et armenta, et tabernacula. 6 Nec poterat eos capere terra, ut habitarent simul: erat quippe substantia eorum multa, et nequibant habitare communiter. 7 Unde et facta est rixa inter pastores gregum Abram et Lot. Eo autem tempore Chananæus et Pherezæus habitabant in terra illa. 8 Dixit ergo Abram ad Lot: Ne quæso sit jurgium inter me et te, et inter pastores meos et pastores tuos: fratres enim sumus. 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. 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. 11 Elegitque sibi Lot regionem circa Jordanem, et recessit ab oriente: divisique sunt alterutrum a fratre suo. 12 Abram habitavit in terra Chanaan; Lot vero moratus est in oppidis, quæ erant circa Jordanem, et habitavit in Sodomis. 13 Homines autem Sodomitæ pessimi erant, et peccatores coram Domino nimis. |
| 14 ὁ |
14 When Abram had parted from Lot, the Lord said to him, Look about thee, turn thy eyes from where thou art to north and south, to east and west. 15 All the land thou seest I make over to thee, and to thy posterity for ever. 16 And to that posterity I will grant increase, till it lies like dust on the ground, past all counting. 17 Up, then, and journey through the land at thy ease, the length and breadth of it; to thee I will give it. 18 So Abram moved his tent, and went to live by the valley of Mambre,[2] at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord. | 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. 15 Omnem terram, quam conspicis, tibi dabo, et semini tuo usque in sempiternum. 16 Faciamque semen tuum sicut pulverem terræ: si quis potest hominum numerare pulverem terræ, semen quoque tuum numerare poterit. 17 Surge, et perambula terram in longitudine et in latitudine sua: quia tibi daturus sum eam. 18 Movens igitur tabernaculum suum Abram, venit, et habitavit juxta convallem Mambre, quæ est in Hebron: ædificavitque ibi altare Domino. |
[1] ‘Commemorating the Lord’s name’; or perhaps, ‘and there (once more) he invoked the Lord’s name’.
[2] The Hebrew text has ‘oaks’ instead of ‘valley’; (cf. 12.6 above).
Knox Translation Copyright © 2013 Westminster Diocese
Nihil Obstat. Father Anton Cowan, Censor.
Imprimatur. +Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster. 8th January 2012.
Re-typeset and published in 2012 by Baronius Press Ltd
