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And he said: "Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem, And may Canaan be his servant.

May God enlarge Japheth, And may he dwell in the tents of Shem; And may Canaan be his servant."

From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

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

Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;

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

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

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

Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance.

Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, "This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

But the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.

Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. [fn]

And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.

Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.

18 Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, [fn] which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord.

They also took Lot, Abram's brother's son who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.