創世記13:1-13

13:1 亞伯蘭帶著他的妻子與羅得，並一切所有的，都從埃及上南地去。
13:2 亞伯蘭的金、銀、牲畜極多。
13:3 他從南地漸漸往伯特利去，到了伯特利和艾的中間，就是從前支搭帳棚的地方，
13:4 也是他起先築壇的地方；他又在那裡求告耶和華的名。
13:5 與亞伯蘭同行的羅得也有牛群、羊群、帳棚。
13:6 那地容不下他們；因為他們的財物甚多，使他們不能同居。
13:7 當時，迦南人與比利洗人在那地居住。亞伯蘭的牧人和羅得的牧人相爭。
13:8 亞伯蘭就對羅得說：「你我不可相爭，你的牧人和我的牧人也不可相爭，因為我們是骨肉（原文是弟兄）。
13:9 遍地不都在你眼前嗎？請你離開我：你向左，我就向右；你向右，我就向左。」
13:10 羅得舉目看見約旦河的全平原，直到瑣珥，都是滋潤的，那地在耶和華未滅所多瑪、蛾摩拉以先如同耶和華的園子，也像埃及地。
13:11 於是羅得選擇約旦河的全平原，往東遷移；他們就彼此分離了。
13:12 亞伯蘭住在迦南地，羅得住在平原的城邑，漸漸挪移帳棚，直到所多瑪。
13:13 所多瑪人在耶和華面前罪大惡極。

So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. ² Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

³ From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier ⁴ and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.
⁵ Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. ⁶ But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. ⁷ And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
⁸ So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. ⁹ Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
¹⁰ Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) ¹¹ So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: ¹² Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. ¹³ Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.

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    亞伯拉罕是一個追求和睦的人，雖然他和羅得是親戚，他也不佔羅得的便宜，寧可讓羅得選好的地方，自己往不好的地方去，於是叔姪兩人就此分開，而這一分開就帶來不同的命運。

    羅得雖然選了富饒之地，卻是充滿罪惡的地方，就是後來被上帝降火所滅的所多瑪、蛾摩拉。而羅得最後與亞伯拉罕越來越遠竟然定居到所多瑪。聖經描述這兩個地方如下：「那地在耶和華未滅所多瑪、蛾摩拉以先如同耶和華的園子，也像埃及地」、「所多瑪人在耶和華面前罪大惡極」。

    所以，我們不可以用人的眼光來判定什麼是「正面」？什麼是「負面」？而是要我們用與上帝的關係來判定，不然會像羅得一般，雖然往人所認為「正面」的方向來走，以至於最後落到上帝所看的「負面」，後悔莫及！