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But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.
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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;
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for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.
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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.
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Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you."
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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.