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And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and may Canaan be his slave.

The coasts of the nations were divided by these in their lands each by his tongue, by their families, in their nations.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

And Canaan fathered his first-born Sidon, and Heth,

And two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

And each one said to his neighbor, Come, let us make brick, and burning burn them. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

And Terah took his son Abram, and Lot, Haran's son, his grandson and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there.

And Abram took his wife Sarai, and his brother's son, Lot, and all their substance that they had gained, and the persons they had gotten in Haran. And they went out to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan.

And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and stretched his tent with Bethel toward the sea, and Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.

And it happened when he had drawn near to come to Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, Behold, please, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon.

And it will be, when the Egyptians see you, then they will say, This is his wife, and they will kill me, and they will save you alive.

And Jehovah touched Pharaoh and his house with great plagues on the word of Sarai, Abram's wife.

And as Pharaoh commanded his men as to him, even they sent away him and his wife and all that he had.

And Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negeb, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot being with him.

And he went on his journeys from the south, even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been there at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the circuit of Jordan, that it was well-watered before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt as you come to Zoar.

Then Lot chose all the circuit of Jordan for himself. And Lot pulled up stakes toward the east. And they were separated, each one from his brother.

Then Abram moved his tent and came and lived among the oaks of Mamre, which were in Hebron; and he built an altar to Jehovah there.

And they took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, and his goods, and left; and he was living in Sodom.