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Genesis, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had,
and Lot with him, into the South. {13:2} Abram was very rich in
livestock, in silver, and in gold. {13:3} He went on his journeys from
the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the
beginning, between Bethel and Ai, {13:4} to the place of the altar,
which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name
of the LORD. {13:5} Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and
herds, and tents. {13:6} The land was not able to bear them, that they
might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could
not live together. {13:7} There was a strife between the herdsmen of
Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the
Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time. {13:8}
Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you,
and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
{13:9} Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from
me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you
go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
{13:10} Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan,
that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom
and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as
you go to Zoar. {13:11} So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for
himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from
the other. {13:12} Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in
the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. {13:13}
Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the
LORD.
{13:14} The LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him,
"Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are,
northward and southward and eastward and westward, {13:15} for all the
land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.
{13:16} I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that
if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be
numbered. {13:17} Arise, walk through the land in its length and in
its breadth; for I will give it to you."
{13:18} Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of
Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
{14:1} It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch,
king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
{14:2} that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha,
king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar). {14:3} All these
joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).
{14:4} Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth
year, they rebelled. {14:5} In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came,
and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth
Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
{14:6} and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by
the wilderness. {14:7} They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same
is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the
Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar. {14:8} 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 same is Zoar) went out; and they set the
battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim; {14:9} against
Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king
of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
{14:10} Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings
of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who
remained fled to the hills. {14:11} They took all the goods of Sodom
and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way. {14:12} They
took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods,
and departed.
{14:13} One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he
lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and
brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram. {14:14} When Abram
heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his trained men,
born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as
Dan. {14:15} He divided himself against them by night, he and his
servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the
left hand of Damascus. {14:16} He brought back all the goods, and also
brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and
the people.
{14:17} The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return
from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at
the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley). {14:18} Melchizedek
king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God
Most High. {14:19} He blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God
Most High, possessor of heaven and earth: {14:20} and blessed be God
Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand."
Abram gave him a tenth of all.
{14:21} The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and
take the goods to yourself."
{14:22} Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand
to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, {14:23}
that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is
yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich.' {14:24} I will
accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten,
and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre.
Let them take their portion."
{15:1} After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a
vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your
exceedingly great reward."
{15:2} Abram said, "[1>]Lord[<1] the LORD, what will you give me,
since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of
Damascus?" {15:3} Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed:
and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
{15:4} Behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man
will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will
be your heir." {15:5} The LORD brought him outside, and said, "Look
now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count
them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be." {15:6} He believed
in the LORD; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. {15:7} He
said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur-Kasdim, to give
you this land to inherit it."
{15:8} He said, "Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?"
{15:9} He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female
goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young
pigeon." {15:10} He brought him all of these, and divided them in the
middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide
the birds. {15:11} The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and
Abram drove them away.
{15:12} When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now
terror and great darkness fell on him. {15:13} He said to Abram, "Know
for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not
theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred
years. {15:14} I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve.
Afterward they will come out with great wealth, {15:15} but you will
go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
{15:16} In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the
iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." {15:17} It came to pass
that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking
furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. {15:18} In
that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I
have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the
river Euphrates: {15:19} the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
{15:20} the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, {15:21} the
Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
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Footnotes:
[1] {15:2} The word translated "Lord" (mixed case) is "Adonai."
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