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CHAP. XIIII.

ND it came to passe in that time, that Amraphel the King of Sennaar, and Arioch the king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor King of the Elamites, and Thadal the King of Nations made warre against Barra the King of Sodome, and against Bersa the King of Gomorra, and against Sennaab the king of Adama, and against Semebar the King of Seboim, and against the King of Bala, the same is Segor. Al these came together into the wood-land vale, which now is the salt sea. For they had serued Chodorlahomor twelue yeares, & the thirteenth yeare they reuolted from him. Therfore in the fourteenth yeare came Chodorlahomor, and the Kings that were with him, and they struck Raphaim in Astarothcarnaim, and Susim with them, and Emim in Sauee of Carimathaim, and the Corrheans in the mountains of Seir, euen to the Champion countrie of Pharan, which is in the wildernes. And they returned, and came as farre as the fountaine of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they struck al the countrie of the Amelechites, and of the Amorheans, that dwel in Asasonthamar. And they went forth the King of Sodome, and the King of Gomorra, and the King of Adama, and the King of Seboim, moreouer also the King of Bala, which is Segor: and they set themselues against them in battaile aray in the wood-land vale: to wit against Chodorlahomor King of the Elamites, and Thadal king of Nations, and Amraphel King of Sennaar, and Arioch King of Pontus: foure Kings against fiue. But the wood-land vale had many pits of bitume. Therfore the King of Sodome and of Gomorra turned their backs, and were ouerthrowne there: and they that remained fled to the mountaine. And they tooke al the substance of the Sodomites and Gomorrheans, and tooke al kind of victuals, and went their way: and Lot also and his substance, the sonne of Abrams brother, who dwelled in Sodom. And behold one that had escaped told Abram the Hebrew, that dwelt in the vale of Mambre, the Amorrean, brother of Eschol, and the brother of Aner: for these had made a league with Abram. Which when Rh