141And 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,+2that 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).+3All these joined together in the vale of Siddim ( the same is the Salt Sea).+4Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.+5And 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,+6and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.+7And they returned, 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.+8And 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;+9against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
Abram Rescues Lot
10Now 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.+11And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.+12And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.+13And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew: now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were confederate with Abram.+14And 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.+15And 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.+16And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.+
17And 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).+18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.+19And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:+20and blessed be God Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.+21And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.+22And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,+23that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:+24save 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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