1 Abram went up from Egypt toward the arid southern plain with his wife, with everything he had, and with Lot.
2 Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.
3 Abram traveled, making and breaking camp, from the arid southern plain to Bethel and to the sacred place there, where he had first pitched his tent between Bethel and Ai,
4 that is, to the place at which he had earlier built the altar. There he worshipped in the Lord’s name.
5 Now Lot, who traveled with Abram, also had flocks, cattle, and tents.
6 They had so many possessions between them that the land couldn’t support both of them. They could no longer live together.
7 Conflicts broke out between those herding Abram’s livestock and those herding Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land.