Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 13:1 | And Abram went vp out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. |
| 13:2 | And Abram was very rich in cattell, in siluer, and in gold. |
| 13:3 | And hee went on his iourneyes from the South, euen to Beth-el, vnto the place where his tent had bene at the beginning, betweene Beth-el and Hai: |
| 13:4 | Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the LORD. |
| 13:5 | And Lot also which went with Abram, had flocks and heards, & tents. |
| 13:6 | And the land was not able to beare them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. |
| 13:7 | And there was a strife betweene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lots cattell: And the Canaanite, and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. |
| 13:8 | And Abram said vnto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, betweene mee and thee, and betweene my heardmen and thy heardmen: for wee bee brethren. |
| 13:9 | Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thy selfe, I pray thee, from mee: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will goe to the right: or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will goe to the left. |
| 13:10 | And Lot lifted vp his eyes, and beheld all the plaine of Iordane, that it was well watered euery where before the Lord destroyed Sodome and Gomorah, euen as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou commest vnto Zoar. |
| 13:11 | Then Lot chose him all the plaine of Iordane: and Lot iourneyed East; and they separated themselues the one from the other. |
| 13:12 | Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plaine, and pitched his tent toward Sodome. |
| 13:13 | But the men of Sodome were wicked, and sinners before the LORD exceedingly. |
| 13:14 | And the LORD said vnto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift vp now thine eyes, and looke from the place where thou art, Northward, and Southward, and Eastward, and Westward. |
| 13:15 | For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seede for euer. |
| 13:16 | And I will make thy seede as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbred. |
| 13:17 | Arise, walke through the land, in the length of it, and in the breadth of it: for I will giue it vnto thee. |
| 13:18 | Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelt in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar vnto the LORD. |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.