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Genesis 13:8 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. "
Genesis 13:8
Verse in Context
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And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
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Genesis 13:1
"And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south."
Genesis 13:2
"And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold."
Genesis 13:3
"And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;"
Genesis 13:4
"Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD."
Genesis 13:5
"And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents."
Genesis 13:6
"And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together."
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