1 Therefore Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all which he had, and Lot with him, Abram and Lot part waysto the southern region. 2 Moreover he was an exceedingly wealthy man in possession of gold and silver. 3 And he returned by the route by which he came, from the south into Bethel, all the way to the place where previously he had set up the tabernacle between Bethel and Hai 4 in the place of the altar which he had made previously, and invoked the name of the Lord.

5 But also Lot who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and draft animals, and tabernacles. 6 Nor was the land able to hold them, so that they might dwell together; because there was their great wealth, and they could not dwell together.

7 Whence also strife happened between the pastors of the flocks of Abram and Lot. Moreover in that time, the Chanaanites and Phareazites dwelled in the land. 8 Therefore Abram said to Lot: I beg in order that there not be strife between me and you, and between my pastors and your pastors, we are indeed brothers. 9 Behold the whole land is before you; depart from me, I intreat; if to the left you go, I will have the right; if you choose the right, I will proceed to the left.

10 Therefore Lot lifting his eyes, saw everything near the region of the Jordan, which was all irrigated before the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, like the orchard of the Lord, and like Egypt coming into Segor. 11 And Lot chose for himself the region near the Jordan, and withdrew from the East; and both were divided from his brother.

12 Abram dwelled in the land of Chanaan; Lot truly lingered in the towns, which were near the Jordan, and he dwelled in Sodom. 13 Moreover the men of Sodom were the worst, and excessively sinners before the Lord.

14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him: Lift up your eyes, and see the place, in which you are near, to the north and south, and east and west. All the land, which you observe, I will give to you and your descendants in eternity. 16 And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth; if some man can number the dust of the earth, likewise he can number your seed. 17 Rise, and walk the land in its length, and in its breadth; which I am about to give to you.

18 Abram therefore moving his tabernacle, came and dwelled by the valley of Manbue, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.

Linguistic notes

Jerome uses two different verbs to refer to lifting up eyes here. In 13:10, the word he chooses is elavatis (the ablative plural perfect passive participle of elevo), while in 13:14, the verb is leva (the second-person singular present active imperative of levo), and while elevo is derived from levo, there is nothing in the Hebrew original which uses the same verb in both contexts (נָשָׂא) to indicate that there is a cause to vary. Usually with these sorts of variations, it’s easy enough to mark it down as Jerome being Jerome—after all, he tends to vary the word he uses to translate the ו-connective that appears throughout the Hebrew Bible, but in this case, I think he may have been following the lead of the Septuagint which has two distinct verbs 

Theological notes

Lot had been largely absent from Abram’s story since the two of them and Sarai had left Ur for Chanaan. In the whole encounter with Pharaoh, there was no mention of Lot, but apparently he too was enriched by the sojourn in Egypt, so much so, that the two men each had too many followers for them to remain together. We also have our first glance at Sodom, which other than its inhabitants, comes across as a rather nice place. In fact, the word used to describe the area around Sodom and Gomorrha is the same as that used to describe Eden. It seems a terrible thing that the men of Sodom had been able to create such a beautiful place and then filled it with their sins.