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1. 1NDENgakho u-Abhrama wasuka eGibhithe waya eNegebi, kanye lomkakhe lakho konke ayelakho, loLothi ehamba laye.BSBBSB: So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.
2. 2NDEU-Abhrama wayesenothile kakhulu ngezifuyo langesiliva legolide.BSBBSB: And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
3. 3NDEEsuka eNegebi wazula lapha lalapha waze wafika eBhetheli, endaweni eyayiphakathi kweBhetheli le-Ayi lapho ayemise khona ithente lakhe kuqalaBSBBSB: From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
4. 4NDEnjalo lapho ayeqale khona ukwakha i-alithari. Khonapho u-Abhrama wadumisa ibizo likaThixo.BSBBSB: to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
5. 5NDEULothi wayehamba lo-Abhrama, laye wayelemihlambi yezimvu lenkomo lamathente.BSBBSB: Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
6. 6NDEKodwa indawo yayingasoze ibenele bonke nxa babengahlala ndawonye, ngoba impahla yabo yayinengi kakhulu, isala ukuthi bahlale ndawonye.BSBBSB: But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.
7. 7NDEKwaba lokuxabana phakathi kwabelusi baka-Abhrama labelusi bakaLothi. AmaKhenani lamaPherizi lawo ayehlala kulelolizwe ngalesosikhathi.BSBBSB: And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
8. 8NDEU-Abhrama wasesithi kuLothi, “Kasingalwi mina lawe, kumbe abelusi bakho labami ngoba siyizinini zegazi.BSBBSB: So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are kinsmen.
9. 9NDEUmhlaba wonke kawukho phambi kwakho na? Kasehlukane. Ungaya kwesokhohlo mina ngizakuya kwesokunene; ungaya kwesokunene mina ngizakuya kwesokhohlo.”BSBBSB: Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
10. 10NDEULothi wakhangela wabona ukuthi lonke igceke laseJodani lalilamanzi amanengi, njengesivande sikaThixo, njengelizwe laseGibhithe kusiya eZowari. (Ngalesisikhathi uThixo wayengakabhubhisi iSodoma leGomora.)BSBBSB: And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
11. 11NDENgakho uLothi wazikhethela lonke igceke laseJodani, wasesuka waya empumalanga. Amadoda la womabili ehlukana:BSBBSB: So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
12. 12NDEU-Abhrama wahlala elizweni laseKhenani, kwathi uLothi wahlala phakathi kwamadolobho asemagcekeni wamisa amathente akhe eduze leSodoma.BSBBSB: Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
13. 13NDEAbantu baseSodoma babexhwalile kakhulu, besenza izono ezinkulu kuThixo.BSBBSB: But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
14. 14NDEUThixo wathi ku-Abhrama ngemva kokuba uLothi esesukile kuye, “Phakamisa amehlo akho asuke lapho okhona, ukhangele enhla leningizimu, empumalanga lentshonalanga.BSBBSB: After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
15. 15NDELonke ilizwe olibonayo ngizalinika wena kanye lesizukulwane sakho okulaphakade.BSBBSB: for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
16. 16NDENgizakwenza isizukulwane sakho sibe njengothuli lomhlabathi, okokuthi nxa ekhona ongabala uthuli, lesizukulwane sakho sibe lokubalwa.BSBBSB: I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
17. 17NDEHamba udabule ubude lobubanzi belizwe, ngoba ngiyakupha lona.”BSBBSB: Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
18. 18NDENgakho u-Abhrama wathutha amathente akhe wahamba wayakwakha eduze kwezihlahla ezinkulu zikaMamure eHebhroni, lapho akhela khona uThixo i-alithari.BSBBSB: So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.