Genesis 13:12-18 (Vespers, 1st reading)
- 12
- Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.
- 13
- But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.
- 14
- And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are northward, southward, eastward, and westward;
- 15
- “for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.
- 16
- “And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.
- 17
- “Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”
- 18
- Then Abram moved his tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the Lord.