Genesis:12-14
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Now LORD said to Abram ,
Get thee out of thy country ,
and from thy kindred ,
and from thy father '
s house ,
to the land that I will show thee .
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And I will make of thee a great nation ,
and I will bless thee ,
and make thy name great ,
and be thou a blessing .
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And I will bless those who bless thee ,
and he who curses thee I will curse .
And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed .
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So Abram went as LORD had spoken to him ,
and Lot went with him .
And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran .
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And Abram took Sarai his wife ,
and Lot his brother '
s son ,
and all their substance that they had gathered ,
and the souls that they had gotten in Haran ,
and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan .
And they came into the land o
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And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem ,
to the oak of Moreh .
And the Canaanite was then in the land .
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And LORD appeared to Abram ,
and said ,
I will give this land to thy seed .
And there he built an altar to LORD ,
who appeared to him .
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And he moved from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel ,
and pitched his tent ,
having Bethel on the west ,
and Ai on the east .
And there he built an altar to LORD ,
and called upon the name of LORD .
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And Abram journeyed ,
going on still toward the South .
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And there was a famine in the land .
And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there ,
for the famine was severe in the land .
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And it came to pass ,
when he came near to enter into Egypt ,
that he said to Sarai his wife ,
Behold now ,
I know that thou are a fair woman to look upon .
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And it shall come to pass ,
when the Egyptians shall see thee ,
that they shall say ,
This is his wife .
And they will kill me ,
but they will save thee alive .
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Say ,
I pray thee ,
thou are my sister ,
that it may be well with me for thy sake ,
and that my soul may live because of thee .
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And it came to pass ,
that ,
when Abram came into Egypt ,
the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair .
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And the princes of Pharaoh saw her ,
and praised her to Pharaoh .
And the woman was taken into Pharaoh '
s house .
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And he dealt well with Abram for her sake .
And he had sheep ,
and oxen ,
and he-donkeys ,
and men-servants ,
and maid-servants ,
and she-donkeys ,
and camels .
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And LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife .
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And Pharaoh called Abram ,
and said ,
What is this that thou have done to me ?
Why did thou not tell me that she was thy wife ?
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Why did thou say ,
She is my sister ,
so that I took her to be my wife ?
Now therefore behold thy wife .
Take her ,
and go thy way .
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And Pharaoh gave men command concerning him .
And they brought him on the way ,
and his wife ,
and all that he had .
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And Abram went up out of Egypt ,
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and his wife ,
and all that he had ,
and Lot with him ,
into the South .
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And Abram was very rich in cattle ,
in silver ,
and in gold .
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And 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 ,
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to the place of the altar ,
which he had made there at the first .
And Abram called on the name of LORD there .
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And Lot also ,
who went with Abram ,
had flocks ,
and herds ,
and tents .
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And the land was not able to bear them ,
that they might dwell together .
For their substance was great ,
so that they could not dwell together .
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And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram '
s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot '
s cattle .
And the Canaanite and the Perizzite then dwelt in the land .
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And Abram said to Lot ,
Let there be no strife ,
I pray thee ,
between me and thee ,
and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen ,
for we are brothers .
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Is not the whole land before thee ?
Separate thyself ,
I pray thee ,
from me .
If the left hand ,
then I will go to the right .
Or if the right hand ,
then I will go to the left .
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And Lot lifted up his eyes ,
and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan ,
that it was well watered everywhere (
before LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah )
like the garden of LORD ,
like the land of Egypt ,
as thou go to Zoar .
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So Lot chose for himself all the Plain of the Jordan .
And Lot journeyed east ,
and they separated themselves the one from the other .
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Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan .
And Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain ,
and moved his tent as far as Sodom .
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Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against LORD .
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And LORD said to Abram ,
after Lot was separated from him ,
Lift up now thine eyes ,
and look from the place where thou are ,
northward and southward and eastward and westward .
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For all the land which thou see ,
to thee I will give it ,
and to thy seed forever .
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And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth .
So that if a man can number the dust of the earth ,
then may thy seed also be numbered .
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Arise ,
walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ,
for to thee I will give it .
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And Abram moved his tent ,
and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre ,
which are in Hebron ,
and built an altar there to LORD .
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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 joined together in the valley of Siddim (
the same is the Salt Sea ).
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They served Chedorlaomer twelve years ,
and in the thirteenth year they rebelled .
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And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came ,
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 on their mount Seir ,
to Elparan ,
which is by the wilderness .
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And they returned ,
and came to En-mishpat (
the same is Kadesh ),
and smote all the country of the Amalekites ,
and also the Amorites ,
who 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 valley 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 valley of Siddim was full of slime pits .
And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled ,
and they fell there .
And those who remained fled to the mountain .
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And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah ,
and all their food ,
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 some man came who 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 allies 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 Daniel .
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And he divided himself against them by night ,
he and his servants ,
and smote them ,
and pursued them to 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 also the women ,
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 valley of Shaveh (
the same is the King '
s Valley ).
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And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine .
And he was priest of God Most High .
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And he blessed him ,
and said ,
Blessed be Abram of God Most High ,
possessor of heaven and earth .
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And blessed be God Most High ,
who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand .
And [
Abram ]
gave him a tenth of all .
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And the king of Sodom said to Abram ,
Give me the men ,
and take the goods to thyself .
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom ,
I have lifted up my hand to LORD ,
God Most High ,
possessor of heaven and earth ,
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that I will not take a thread nor a shoe latchet nor anything that is thine ,
lest thou should say ,
I have made Abram rich ,
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except only 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 .
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After these things the word of LORD came to Abram in a vision ,
saying ,
Fear not ,
Abram .
I am thy shield ,
thy exceedingly great reward .