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his wife, and Loth his brother's son, and all the substance which they had possessed, and the souls which they had gotten in Haram, and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they had come into it, Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sychem, and as far as the noble vale. And the Chanaanite was then in the land. And the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him: To thy seed I will give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him, and he called there upon his name. And from thence passing on to the mountain which was on the east of Bethel, he pitched there his tabernacle, having Bethel on the west, and Hay on the east. And he built there an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name. And Abram went on, and proceeded southwards. And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there. For the famine had become severe in the land. And when he was near to entering Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife: I know that thou art a beautiful woman, and that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they will say: She is his wife, and they will kill me, and will keep thee. Say therefore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake, and my soul may live because of thee. And when Abram had entered into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful. And the princes told Pharaoh, and praised her before him. And the woman was taken into the house of Pharaoh; and they treated Abram well for her sake. And there were sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she-asses, and camels. But the Lord scourged Pharaoh with very great plagues, and his house, for Sarai, Abram's wife. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? For what cause didst thou say she was thy sister, that I might take her to me

to wife? Now, therefore, there is thy wife, take her, and go. And Pharaoh gave orders to his men concerning Abram, and they conducted him and his wife, and all that he had. C. XIII.

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Abram went up therefore from Egypt: he and his wife, and all that he had, and Loth with him, to the southern region. And he was very rich in the possession of gold and silver. And he returned by the way he had come, from the south into Bethel, as far as the place where before he had pitched his tabernacle between Bethel and Hay, in the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he called upon the name of the Lord. But also Loth who was with Abram: there were flocks of sheep, and herds, and tents, and the land could not support them that they might dwell together. For their substance was great, and they could not dwell together. Whence a strife arose between the herdsmen of the flocks of Abram and Loth. At that time, the Chanaanite and the Pherezean dwelt in that land. Abram therefore said to Loth: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren. Behold, the whole land is before thee: depart from me, I pray thee. If thou wilt go to the left, I will take the right; if thou choose the right, I will go to the left. Loth lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was all watered, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor. And Loth chose for himself the region about the Jordan, and departed from the east. And they were separated from one another. Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan. But Loth remained in the towns that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom. And the men of Sodom were very wicked, and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. And the Lord said to Abram, after Loth was separated from him: Lift up thy eyes and look