Genesis 13

Bibbia Vulgata Clementina	New Jerusalem Bible
¹ Ascendit ergo Abram de Ægypto, ipse et uxor ejus, et omnia quæ habebat, et Lot cum eo, ad australem plagam.	¹ From Egypt Abram returned to the Negeb with his wife and al he possessed, and Lot with him.
² Erat autem dives valde in possessione auri et argenti.	² Abram was very rich in livestock, silver and gold.
³ Reversusque est per iter, quo venerat, a meridie in Bethel, usque ad locum ubi prius fixerat tabernaculum inter Bethel et Hai,	³ By stages he went from the Negeb to Bethel, where he had first pitched his tent, between Bethel andAi,
⁴ in loco altaris quod fecerat prius : et invocavit ibi nomen Domini.	⁴ at the place where he had formerly erected the altar. There Abram invoked the name of Yahweh.
⁵ Sed et Lot qui erat cum Abram, fuerunt greges ovium, et armenta, et tabernacula.	⁵ Lot, who was travelling with Abram, had flocks and cattle of his own, and tents too.
⁶ Nec poterat eos capere terra, ut habitarent simul : erat quippe substantia eorum multa, et nequibant habitare communiter.	⁶ The land was not sufficient to accommodate them both at once, for they had too many possessions tobe able to live together.
⁷ Unde et facta est rixa inter pastores gregum Abram et Lot. Eo autem tempore Chananæus et Pherezæus habitabant in terra illa.	⁷ Dispute broke out between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and those of Lot. (The Canaanites andPerizzites were living in the country at the time.)
⁸ Dixit ergo Abram ad Lot : Ne quæso sit jurgium inter me et te, et inter pastores meos et pastores tuos : fratres enim sumus.	⁸ Accordingly Abram said to Lot, 'We do not want discord between us or between my herdsmen andyours, for we are kinsmen.
⁹ Ecce universa terra coram te est : recede a me, obsecro : si ad sinistram ieris, ego dexteram tenebo : si tu dexteram elegeris, ego ad sinistram pergam.	⁹ Is not the whole land open before you? Go in the opposite direction to me: if you take the left, I shalgo right; if you take the right, I shal go left.'
¹⁰ Elevatis itaque Lot oculis, vidit omnem circa regionem Jordanis, quæ universa irrigabatur antequam subverteret Dominus Sodomam et Gomorrham, sicut paradisus Domini, et sicut Ægyptus venientibus in Segor.	¹⁰ Looking round, Lot saw all the Jordan plain, irrigated everywhere -- this was before Yahwehdestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah-like the garden of Yahweh or the land of Egypt, as far as Zoar.
¹¹ Elegitque sibi Lot regionem circa Jordanem, et recessit ab oriente : divisique sunt alterutrum a fratre suo.	¹¹ So Lot chose all the Jordan plain for himself and moved off eastwards. Thus they parted company:
¹² Abram habitavit in terra Chanaan ; Lot vero moratus est in oppidis, quæ erant circa Jordanem, et habitavit in Sodomis.	¹² Abram settled in the land of Canaan; Lot settled among the cities of the plain, pitching his tents onthe outskirts of Sodom.
¹³ Homines autem Sodomitæ pessimi erant, et peccatores coram Domino nimis.	¹³ Now the people of Sodom were vicious and great sinners against Yahweh.
¹⁴ Dixitque Dominus ad Abram, postquam divisus est ab eo Lot : Leva oculos tuos et vide a loco, in quo nunc es, ad aquilonem et meridiem, ad orientem et occidentem.	¹⁴ Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had parted company from him, 'Look al round from where you are,to north and south, to east and west,
¹⁵ Omnem terram, quam conspicis, tibi dabo, et semini tuo usque in sempiternum.	¹⁵ for al the land within sight I shal give to you and your descendants for ever.
¹⁶ Faciamque semen tuum sicut pulverem terræ : si quis potest hominum numerare pulverem terræ, semen quoque tuum numerare poterit.	¹⁶ I shal make your descendants like the dust on the ground; when people succeed in counting thespecks of dust on the ground, then they wil be able to count your descendants too!
¹⁷ Surge, et perambula terram in longitudine et in latitudine sua : quia tibi daturus sum eam.	¹⁷ On your feet! Travel the length and breadth of the country, for I mean to give it to you.'
¹⁸ Movens igitur tabernaculum suum Abram, venit, et habitavit juxta convallem Mambre, quæ est in Hebron : ædificavitque ibi altare Domino.	¹⁸ So Abram moved his tent and went to settle at the Oak of Mamre, at Hebron, and there he built analtar to Yahweh.