Genesis 13:11

So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan and went on to the east; and they separated from one another.

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In The King James Version

Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

In Context

10Then Lot looked about and saw that all the plain of the Jordan, as far as Zoar, was well watered everywhere, like a garden of the Lord. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

12Abram lived in the land of Canaan and Lot lived in the cities of the plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:14The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had gone away from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are northward, southward, eastward and westward,

Psalms 16:3Those who are holy in the land, they, they alone, are the noble ones; all my delight is in them.”

1 Peter 2:17Show honor to everyone, love the Lord’s followers, ‘revere God, honor the emperor.’

Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:11-14

Lot's Removal to Sodom. ( b. c. 1917.) 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13… Read the whole commentary →

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