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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 12: 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said: 'What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Genesis 12: 19 Why saidst thou: She is my sister? so that I took her to be my wife; now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.'
Genesis 12: 20 And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him; and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
Genesis 13: 1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.
Genesis 13: 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 13: 3 And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Ai;
Genesis 13: 4 unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first; and Abram called there on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 13: 5 And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
Genesis 13: 6 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.
Genesis 13: 7 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 dwelt then in the land.
Genesis 13: 8 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 are brethren.
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