Abraham and Lot's conflict is a story told in the Book of Genesis, in the weekly read Torah

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 portion, Lech-Lecha

Lech-Lecha

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, that depicts the separation of Abraham

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 and Lot, as a result of a fight among their shepherds. The dispute ends in peaceful way, in which Abraham concedes a handful piece of the Promised Land, which belongs to him, in order to resolve the conflict peacefully.

The description of the story in the Hebrew Bible

The story told in Genesis 13:5-13, in which Abraham and Lot separate, as a result of the quarrel among the shepherds. At the begging of the story, Lot is described as a very wealthy man, like Abraham used to be after his return from Egypt. The biblical text does not elaborate on the exact reason for the dispute, however, as a result of this, Abraham offers Lot to separate, in order to prevent the fight, and he grants Lot with the right to be the first among the two to pick the territory he desires:

Lot accepts the peace deal, for the Partition of the Land, and chooses the area of the plain of the Jordan – in Sodom

Sodom and Gomorrah

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area, and the story ends with Abraham and Lot separately settling in different areas of the Land: