Genesis 13:9
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Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me, I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left.

Is not.

Genesis 20:15 And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.

Genesis 34:10 And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.

if thou wilt.

Psalm 120:7 With them that hated peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.

Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men.

1 Corinthians 6:7 Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have law suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

James 3:13-18 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom. . . .

1 Peter 3:8-12 And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble: . . .

Context
Abram and Lot Part Ways
8Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren. 9Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me, I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left.
Cross References
Genesis 13:8
Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Genesis 20:15
And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.

Genesis 34:10
And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.

Jeremiah 40:4
Now then behold I have loosed thee this day from the chains which were upon thy hands: if it please thee to come with me to Babylon, come: and I will set my eyes upon thee: but if it do not please thee to come with me to Babylon, stay here: behold all the land is before thee, as thou shalt choose, and whither it shall please thee to go, thither go.

Lexicon
Is not
הֲלֹ֤א (hă·lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

the whole
כָל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

land
הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

before you?
לְפָנֶ֔יךָ (lə·p̄ā·ne·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

Now
נָ֖א (nā)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then'

separate yourself
הִפָּ֥רֶד (hip·pā·reḏ)
Verb - Nifal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6504: To break through, spread, separate

from me.
מֵעָלָ֑י (mê·‘ā·lāy)
Preposition-m | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you go to the left,
הַשְּׂמֹ֣אל (haś·śə·mōl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8040: Dark, the north, the left hand

I will go to the right;
וְאֵימִ֔נָה (wə·’ê·mi·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3231: To go to or choose the right, to use the right hand

if
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you go to the right,
הַיָּמִ֖ין (hay·yā·mîn)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3225: The right hand, side, the south

I will go to the left.”
וְאַשְׂמְאִֽילָה׃ (wə·’aś·mə·’î·lāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8041: To use the left hand, pass in that direction)


Additional Translations
Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”Is not the whole land before you? separate yourself, I pray you, from me: if you will take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if you depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if thou take the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Lo! is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself from me; if thou goest to the left, I will go to the right, and if thou goest to the right, I will go to the left.

Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if to the left, then I will take the right; and if to the right, then I will take the left.

Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou take the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou wilt depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

Is not all the land before thee? be parted, I pray thee, from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and if to the right, then I to the left.'
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