◄ Genesis 13:9 ►
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Good News Translation
So let's separate. Choose any part of the land you want. You go one way, and I'll go the other."

New Revised Standard Version
Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”

Contemporary English Version
There is plenty of land for you to choose from. Let's separate. If you go north, I'll go south; if you go south, I'll go north."

New American Bible
Is not the whole land available? Please separate from me. If you prefer the left, I will go to the right; if you prefer the right, I will go to the left.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Is not.

Genesis 20:15 And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.

Genesis 34:10 And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.

if thou wilt.

Psalm 120:7 With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.

Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men.

1 Corinthians 6:7 Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have law suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

James 3:13-18 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom. . . .

1 Peter 3:8-12 And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble: . . .

Context
Abram and Lot Part Ways
…8Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren. 9Behold 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.
Cross References
Genesis 13:8
Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.

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 20:15
And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.

Genesis 34:10
And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.

Jeremiah 40:4
Now then behold I have loosed thee this day from the chains which were upon thy hands: if it please thee to come with me to Babylon, come: and I will set my eyes upon thee: but if it do not please thee to come with me to Babylon, stay here: behold all the land is before thee, as thou shalt choose, and whither it shall please thee to go, thither go.

Genesis 13:8
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