KJV King James Version
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
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Genesis 13:5
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
WEB World English Bible
Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
ASV American Standard Version
And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents;
Surrounding context — Genesis 13
2 And Abram [was] very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we [be] brethren.
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Jeremiah 49:29Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear [is] on every side.Genesis 25:27And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob [was] a plain man, dwelling in tents.Genesis 4:20And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle.
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