Genesis 13:5
But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sed et Lot qui erat cum Abram, fuerunt greges ovium, et armenta, et tabernacula.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ Λὼτ τῷ συμπορευομένῳ μετὰ Ἀβρὰμ ἦν πρόβατα καὶ βόες καὶ κτήνη.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְגַם לְל֔וֹט הַהֹלֵ֖ךְ אֶת אַבְרָ֑ם הָיָ֥ה צֹאן וּבָקָ֖ר וְאֹהָלִֽים
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Pammachius
11. I hear that you have erected a hospice for strangers at Portus and that you have planted a twig from the tree of Abraham upon the Ausonian shore. Like Æneas you are tracing the outlines of a new encampment; only that, whereas he, when he reached the waters of the Tiber, under pressure of want had to eat the square flat cakes which formed the tables spoken of by the oracle, you are able to build a house of bread to rival this little village of Bethlehem wherein I am staying; and here after their long privations you propose to satisfy travellers with sudden plenty. Well done. You have surpassed my poor beginning. You have reached the highest point. You have made your way from the root to the top of the tree. You are the first of monks in the first city of the world: you do right therefore to follow the first of the patriarchs. …