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- And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
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- 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.
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- All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim - the same is the Salt Sea.
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- Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
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- And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
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- and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.
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- And they turned back, and came to En-mishpat - the same is Kadesh - and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.
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- 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 same is Zoar;
and they set the battle in array against them in the vale of Siddim;
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- 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.
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- Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits;
and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.
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- And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.
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- And they took Lot, Abram"s brother"s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
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- And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew - now he dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner;
and these were confederate with Abram.
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- And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.
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- And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
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- And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
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- And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh - the same is the King"s Vale.
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- And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine;
and he was priest of God the Most High.
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- And he blessed him, and said: "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth;
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- and blessed be God the Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand." And he gave him a tenth of all.
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- And the king of Sodom said unto Abram: "Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself."
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- And Abram said to the king of Sodom: "I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth,
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- that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say: I have made Abram rich;
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- save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their portion."
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