"Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me."--_Gen.
13:8._
TWO men were travelling together. They were an uncle and nephew. The
uncle's name was Abram, the nephew's was Lot. They had come from home,
because God had told Abram to come away from his own home to the land
that God would give his children. Abram believed, and did as God bade
him; and Lot, the son of his dead brother, went with him. They did not
go alone. Each of them had great flocks of cows, and sheep, and camels,
and goats, and numbers of servants to take care of them. They would fix
their tents, made of camels' hair, in any place where they saw a spring
of water and good green grass for their cattle; and there they would
stay till all the grass was eaten up, and then take up their tents and
move to another place.