Genesis 13:11
Good News Translation
So Lot chose the whole Jordan Valley for himself and moved away toward the east. That is how the two men parted.

New Revised Standard Version
So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward; thus they separated from each other.

Contemporary English Version
So Lot chose the whole Jordan Valley for himself, and as he started out toward the east, he and Abram separated.

New American Bible
Lot, therefore, chose for himself the whole Jordan Plain and set out eastward. Thus they separated from each other.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.

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Genesis 19:17 And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

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Genesis 13:9,14 Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me, I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left. . . .

Psalm 16:3 To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my desires in them.

Psalm 119:63 I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy commandments.

Proverbs 27:10 Thy own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not: and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother afar off.

Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed: but comforting one anther, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

1 Peter 2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Context
Lot Proceeds Toward Sodom
10And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor. 11And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.12Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and Lot abode in the towns, that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.…
Cross References
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Genesis 13:12
Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan: and Lot abode in the towns, that were about the Jordan, and dwelt in Sodom.

Ezekiel 47:18
And the east side is from the midst of Auran, and from the midst of Damascus, and from the midst of Galaad, and from the midst of the land of Israel, Jordan making the bound to the east sea, and thus you shall measure the east side.

Genesis 13:10
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