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God reneweth the promie to Abram.

1 Abram and Lot return out of Egypt. 7 On a trife between their ervants they agree to part. 10 Lot goeth to Sodom. 14 God reneweth his promie to Abram. 18 He removeth to Hebron, and there buildeth an altar.

Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the outh.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in ilver, and in gold.

And he went on his journeys from the outh even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;

Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the firt: and there Abram called on the name of the.

And Lot alo, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their ubtance was great, o that they could not dwell together.

¶ And there was a trife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

And Abram aid unto Lot, Let there be no trife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be † brethren.

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

¶ And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the detroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the, like the land of Egypt, as thou comet unto Zoar.

Then Lot choe him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed eat: and they eparated themelves the one from the other.

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

But the men of Sodom were wicked and inners before the exceedingly.

¶ And the aid unto Abram, after that Lot was eparated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and outhward, and eatward, and wetward:

For all the land which thou eet, to thee will I give it, and to thy eed for ever.

And I will make thy eed as the dut of the earth: o that if a man can number the dut of the earth, then hall thy eed alo be numbered.

Arie, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

¶ Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the † plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the.

1 The battle of four kings againt five, 11 Lot is taken prioner. 14 Abram refeueth Lot , 17 is met by the king of Sodom, and bleed by Melchizedek, to whom he giveth tithe. 21 He retoreth the ret of the poil to the king of Sodom, except the portion of his confederates.

it came to pas in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellaar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;

That thee made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

All thee were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the alt ea.

Twelve years they erved Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and mote the Rephaims in Ahteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in ‖ Shaveh Kiriathaim,

And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto ‖ El-paran, which is by the wildernes.

And they returned, and came to Enmihpat, which is Kadeh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and alo the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.

And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the ame is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellaar; four kings with five.

And the vale of Siddim was full of limepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.