Abram, Sarai and Lot left Egypt and went back to where Abram originally built an altar to the Lord. It was there Abram called upon the name of the Lord (Genesis 13:4).
Conditions became crowded for Abram and Lot because of their flocks, herds and tents. Tension developed between their herdsmen. Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren" (Genesis 13:8).
Abram and Lot parted ways. Lot moved east to dwell in the plain of Jordan toward Sodom where sinful men lived. Abram lived in Canaan.
"And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee" (Genesis 13:14-17).
Abram then moved to the plain of Mamre in Hebron to live and there he built an altar to the Lord.
For your personal reference, turn to Genesis 13.
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