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Genesis 13:11

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Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
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  1. Genesis 13:9Rank 1 from verse 11
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    9Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

  2. 1 Peter 2:17Rank 2 from verse 11
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    17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

  3. Hebrews 10:25Rank 3 from verse 11
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    25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

  4. Proverbs 27:10Rank 4 from verse 11
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    10Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

  5. Psalms 119:63Rank 5 from verse 11
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    63I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

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Genesis 13:11

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plain

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1. A level tract of land. 2. Clear or evident. 3. Simple or unadorned.

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east

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The direction of sunrise; lands or regions toward that direction.

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13:5¶ And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

13:6And 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.

13:7And 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.

13:8And 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.

13:9Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

13:10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

13:11Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

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13:12Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

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