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title: "Genesis 13 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "Abram and Lot part from each other. God's promise to Abram. Genesis 13 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Genesis 13

Genesis 13 is chapter 13 of 50 in the Book of Genesis. Here are all 18 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Abram and Lot part from each other. God's promise to Abram.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Genesis 13 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Therefore, Abram ascended from Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, toward the southern region.
2. But he was very wealthy by the possession of gold and silver.
3. And he returned by the way that he came, from the meridian into Bethel, all the way to the place where before he had pitched his tent, between Bethel and Hai.
4. There, at the place of the altar he had made before, he again called upon the name of the Lord.
5. But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and cattle, and tents.
6. Neither was the land able to contain them, so that they might dwell together. Indeed, their substance was so great that they could not live in common.
7. And then there also arose a conflict between the shepherds of Abram and of Lot. Now at that time the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in that land.
8. Therefore, Abram said to Lot: “I ask you, let there be no quarrel between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds. For we are brothers.
9. Behold, the entire land is before your eyes. Withdraw from me, I beg you. If you will go to the left, I will take the right. If you choose the right, I will pass to the left.”
10. And so Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the region around the Jordan, which was thoroughly irrigated, before the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It was like the Paradise of the Lord, and it was like Egypt, approaching toward Zoar.
11. And Lot chose for himself the region around the Jordan, and he withdrew by way of the east. And they were divided, one brother from the other.
12. Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan. In truth, Lot stayed in the towns that were around the Jordan, and he lived in Sodom.
13. But the men of Sodom were very wicked, and they were sinners before the Lord beyond measure.
14. And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot was divided from him: “Lift up your eyes, and gaze out from the place where you are now, to the north and to the meridian, to the east and to the west.
15. All the land that you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring even forever.
16. And I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If any man is able to number the dust of the earth, he will be able to number your offspring as well.
17. Arise and walk through the land in its length, and breadth. For I will give it to you.”
18. Therefore, moving his tent, Abram went and dwelt by the steep valley of Mamre, which is in Hebron. And he built an altar there to the Lord.

## Genesis 13 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Ascendit ergo Abram de Ægypto, ipse et uxor ejus, et omnia quæ habebat, et Lot cum eo, ad australem plagam.
2. Erat autem dives valde in possessione auri et argenti.
3. Reversusque est per iter, quo venerat, a meridie in Bethel, usque ad locum ubi prius fixerat tabernaculum inter Bethel et Hai,
4. in loco altaris quod fecerat prius: et invocavit ibi nomen Domini.
5. Sed et Lot qui erat cum Abram, fuerunt greges ovium, et armenta, et tabernacula.
6. Nec poterat eos capere terra, ut habitarent simul: erat quippe substantia eorum multa, et nequibant habitare communiter.
7. Unde et facta est rixa inter pastores gregum Abram et Lot. Eo autem tempore Chananæus et Pherezæus habitabant in terra illa.
8. Dixit ergo Abram ad Lot: Ne quæso sit jurgium inter me et te, et inter pastores meos et pastores tuos: fratres enim sumus.
9. Ecce universa terra coram te est: recede a me, obsecro: si ad sinistram ieris, ego dexteram tenebo: si tu dexteram elegeris, ego ad sinistram pergam.
10. Elevatis itaque Lot oculis, vidit omnem circa regionem Jordanis, quæ universa irrigabatur antequam subverteret Dominus Sodomam et Gomorrham, sicut paradisus Domini, et sicut Ægyptus venientibus in Segor.
11. Elegitque sibi Lot regionem circa Jordanem, et recessit ab oriente: divisique sunt alterutrum a fratre suo.
12. Abram habitavit in terra Chanaan; Lot vero moratus est in oppidis, quæ erant circa Jordanem, et habitavit in Sodomis.
13. Homines autem Sodomitæ pessimi erant, et peccatores coram Domino nimis.
14. Dixitque Dominus ad Abram, postquam divisus est ab eo Lot: Leva oculos tuos et vide a loco, in quo nunc es, ad aquilonem et meridiem, ad orientem et occidentem.
15. Omnem terram, quam conspicis, tibi dabo, et semini tuo usque in sempiternum.
16. Faciamque semen tuum sicut pulverem terræ: si quis potest hominum numerare pulverem terræ, semen quoque tuum numerare poterit.
17. Surge, et perambula terram in longitudine et in latitudine sua: quia tibi daturus sum eam.
18. Movens igitur tabernaculum suum Abram, venit, et habitavit juxta convallem Mambre, quæ est in Hebron: ædificavitque ibi altare Domino.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 500: "Conceived By the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Jun 22, 2027 (computed): Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Genesis 13:2, 5-18

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).