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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.
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.
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.
Is 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.
And 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.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

13:10 well watered. In the early centuries after the Flood, a great ice sheet probably covered the northern latitudes, and this in turn led to abundant rainfall in the southern latitudes, a “pluvial age” corresponding to the “glacial age” farther north. There is much evidence of this all over the world, with remains of extensive settlements and agriculture in regions which (like the region where Sodom and Gomorrah once thrived, near the southern end of the Dead Sea) are now oppressively hot, dry and desolate.


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