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Mechizedek bleeth Abram.

And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

¶ And they took Lot, Abram's brother's on, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

And there came one that had ecaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Ehcol, and brother of Aner: and thee were confederate with Abram.

¶ And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he ‖ armed his ‖ trained ervants, born in his own houe, three hundred and eighteen, and purued them unto Dan.

And he divided himelf againt them, he and his ervants, by night, and mote them, and purued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damacus.

And he brought back all the goods, and alo brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women alo, and the people.

¶ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the laughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's dale.

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priet of the mot high God.

And he bleed him, and aid, Bleed be Abram of the mot high God, poeor of heaven and earth:

And bleed be the mot high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

¶ And the king of Sodom aid unto Abram, Give me the † perons, and take the goods to thyelf.

And Abram aid to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the, the mot high God, the poeor of heaven and earth,

That I will not take from a thread even to a hoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, let thou houldet ay, I have made Abram rich:

Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Ehcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

1 God encourageth Abram, who complaineth for want of an heir. 4 God promieth him a on, and a numerous eed. 6 He is jutified by his faith. 7 The promie of Canaan is renewed, and confirmed to him by a ign and a viion.

thee things the word of the came unto Abram in a viion, aying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy hield, and thy exceeding great reward.

And Abram aid, God, what wilt thou give me, eeing I go childles, and the teward of my houe is this Eliezer of Damacus?

And Abram aid, Behold, to me thou hat given no eed: and, lo, one born in my houe is mine heir.

¶ And, behold, the word of the came unto him, aying, This hall not be thine heir; but he that hall come forth out of thine own bowels hall be thine heir.

And he brought him forth abroad, and aid, Look now toward heaven, and tell the tars, if thou be able to number them: and he aid unto him, So hall thy eed be.

¶ And he believed in the ; and he counted it to him for righteounes.

¶ And he aid unto him, I am the that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

And he aid, God, whereby hall I know that I hall inherit it?

And he aid unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a he goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

And he took unto him all thee, and divided them in the midt, and laid each piece one againt another: but the birds divided he not.

And when the fowls came down upon the carcaes, Abram drove them away.

¶ And when the un was going down, a deep leep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darknes fell upon him.

And he aid unto Abram, Know of a urety that thy eed hall be a tranger in a land that is not theirs, and hall erve them; and they hall afflict them four hundred years;

And alo that nation, whom they hall erve, will I judge: and afterward hall they come out with great ubtance.

And thou halt go to thy fathers in peace; thou halt be buried in a good old age.

But in the fourth generation they hall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

And it came to pas, that, when the un went down, and it was dark, behold a moking furnace, and † a burning lamp that paed between thoe pieces.