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Genesis 13

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Wealth make Abram and Lot herders dey quarrel, so Abram allow im nephew choose first. Lot take di Jordan plain wey get plenty water and dey drift go Sodom. Wit wetin remain for am, our Papa tell Abram make e look every side: all of am na for im descendants.

Chapter 13.

Abram comot from Egypt go up to di Negev, im, im wife, everytin wey e get, and Lot dey with am. Now Abram don rich well well for animal, for silver, and for gold. E waka small small from di Negev reach Bethel, go di place wey dey between Bethel and Ai, wia im tent bin dey before, di place wia e first build altar. Na dia Abram call di name of our Papa. Now Lot, wey dey travel with Abram, get im own sheep and cow and tent too. Di land no fit carry dem to dey stay togeda, becos dia property too plenty make dem stay for one place. Quarrel come rise between Abram im herdsmen and Lot im herdsmen. Di Canaan people and Perizzite people dey live for di land dat time. Abram tell Lot, “Make wahala no dey between me and you, or between your herdsmen and my own—we be brodas. No be di whole land dey your front? Abeg, make you comot from me: if you go left, I go go right; if you go right, I go go left.”

Lot look up come see say di whole Jordan plain wey face Zoar get water well well everywia—like our Papa im garden, like di land of Egypt. (Dis one na before our Papa destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.). Lot choose di whole Jordan plain for imsef come travel go east; di two of dem come separate from each oda. Abram live for di land of Canaan; Lot live among di cities of di plain come put im tent reach Sodom. Now di people of Sodom bin bad, dey sin well well against our Papa.

Afta Lot comot from am, our Papa tell Abram, “Look up from wia you stand: north, south, east, and west. Becos all di land wey you dey see, I go give am to you and to your pikin dem forever. I go make your pikin dem plenty like di dust of di earth—if person fit count di dust of di earth, den dem fit count your pikin dem too. Stand up, waka go troway di land, im length and im wide, becos na you I dey give am.”

Abram carry im tent go, come settle for di oak trees of Mamre for Hebron, come build altar dia to our Papa.

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