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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.

      ¹⁵ 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.

      ¹⁶ And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

      ¹⁷ 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).

      ¹⁸ And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

      ¹⁹ And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

      ²⁰ and blessed be God Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.

      ²¹ And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

      ²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

      ²³ 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:

      ²⁴ save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.

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      ¹ After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.

      ² And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

      ³ And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

      ⁴ And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

      ⁵ And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

      ⁶ And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

      ⁷ And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

      ⁸ And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

      ⁹ And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

      ¹⁰ And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not.

      ¹¹ And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

      ¹² And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

      ¹³ And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

      ¹⁴ and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

      ¹⁵ But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

      ¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

      ¹⁷ And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.

      ¹⁸ In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

      ¹⁹ the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

      ²⁰ and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,

      ²¹ and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

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      ¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

      ² And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

      ³ And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

      ⁴ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

      ⁵ And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into they bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and thee.

      ⁶ But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hardly with her, and she fled from her face.

      ⁷ And the angel of Jehovah found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

      ⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

      ⁹ And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

      ¹⁰ And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

      ¹¹ And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction.

      ¹² And he shall be [as] a wild ass among men; his hand [shall be] against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.

      ¹³ And she called the name of Jehovah that spake unto her, Thou art a God that seeth: for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me?

      ¹⁴ Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

      ¹⁵ And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bare, Ishmael.

      ¹⁶ And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

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      ¹ And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

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