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And Yahweh said unto Abram :
Come thou on thy way ,
Out of thy land and out of the place of thy birth and out of the house of thy father ,
Unto the land that I will show thee ;
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That I may make thee into a great nation ,
And bless thee and make great thy name ,
And become thou a blessing ;
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That I may bless them who bless thee ,
But him who maketh light of thee ,
will I curse ,
So shall be ,
blessed in thee ,
all the families of the ground .
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And Abram came on his way ,
according to that which Yahweh had spoken unto him ,
and Lot came with him ,
now ,
Abram ,
was seventy-five years old ,
when he came forth out of Haran .
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And Abram took Sarai his wife ,
and Lot his brothers son ,
with all the goods that they bad gathered and the souls that they had gained in Haran ,
and they came forth to go towards the land of Canaan ,
and came in to the land of Canaan .
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And Abram passed along throughout the land ,
as far as the place of Shechem as far as the Teachers Terebinth ,
the Canaanite being then in the land .
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And Yahweh appeared unto Abram ,
and said :
To thy seed ,
will I give this land ,
And he built there an altar ,
unto Yahweh who appeared unto him .
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And he moved on from thence towards the hill country ,
on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent ,
with Bethel on the west ,
and Ai on the east ,
and bulk there an altar to Yahweh ,
and called on the name of Yahweh .
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Thus Abram brake up ,
again and again ,
towards the South .
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And it came to pass that there was a famine ,
in the land ,
so Abram went down towards Egypt ,
to sojourn there ,
because grievous ,
was the famine in the land .
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And it came to pass when he had come near to enter into Egypt ,
that he said unto Sarai his wife :
Behold !
I beseech thee I know that a woman fair to look on ,
thou art :
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so will it come to pass when the Egyptians behold thee ,
that they will say ,
His wife ,
this !
and will slay me while thee ,
they preserve alive .
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Say ,
I beseech thee that my sister ,
art thou ,
to the end it may be well with me for thy sake ,
so shall my soul be preserved alive because of thee .
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And so it was when Abram entered into Egypt ,
the Egyptians beheld the woman ,
that fair ,
was she exceedingly .
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And the princes of Pharaoh beheld her ,
and praised her unto Pharaoh ,
so the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh ;
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and with Abram ,
dealt he well for her sake ,
so that he came to have flocks and herds and he-asses ,
and men-servants ,
and maid-servants ,
and she-asses and camels .
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And Yahweh plagued Pharaoh with great plagues ,
also his house ,
for the matter of Sarai ,
wife of Abram .
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And Pharaoh called out to Abram ,
and said ,
What is this thou hast done to me ?
Wherefore didst thou not tell me ,
that she was ,
thy wife ?
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Wherefore saidst thou My sister ,
she ;
and so I was about to take her to me ,
to wife ?
But now ,
lo !
thy wife take her and go thy way .
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And Pharaoh gave command concerning him unto certain men ,
and sent him away ,
with his wife and all that he had .
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So Abram came up out of Egypt he and his wife and all that he had and Lot with him ,
towards the South .
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Now ,
Abram ,
was very rich ,
in cattle ,
in silver and in gold .
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And he went his way ,
by his removals ,
from the South even as far as to Bethel ,
as far as the place where his tent was at the beginning ,
between Bethel and Ai :
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unto the place of the altar ,
which he made there at first ,
and Abram called there ,
on the name of Yahweh .
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Now ,
Lot also ,
who was going with Abram ,
had flocks and herds and tents .
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And the land suffered them not to dwell together ,
because their substance had become ,
great ,
so that they could not dwell together .
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And there arose a strife betwixt the herdmen of Abram ,
and the herdmen of Lot .
Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite ,
were then dwelling in the land .
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So then Abram said unto Lot Pray let not cause of strife arise betwixt me and thee ,
or betwixt my herdmen and thy herdmen ;
for brethren ,
are we .
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Is not ,
all the land ,
before thee ?
I pray thee ,
separate thyself from me ,
if to the left hand ,
then I will go to the right ,
if to the right hand ,
then I will go to the left .
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So Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the circuit of the Jordan ,
that the whole of it ,
was well-watered ,
before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah ,
like the Garden of Yahweh ,
like the land of Egypt ,
as thou enterest into Zoar .
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And Lot chose for himself all the circuit of the Jordan ,
so Lot brake up eastwards ,
and they separated themselves ,
each man from his brother :
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Abram ,
fixed his dwelling in the land of Canaan ,
but ,
Lot ,
fixed his dwelling among the cities ,
of the circuit ,
and moved his tent as far as Sodom .
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Now ,
the men of Sodom were base and sinful ,
against Yahweh ,
exceedingly .
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And ,
Yahweh ,
said unto Abram after that Lot had separated himself from him ,
Lift up ,
I pray thee thine eyes and look ,
from the place where thou art ,
northward and southward and eastward and westward ;
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for all the land which thou art beholdingto thee ,
will I give it ,
and to thy seed unto times age-abiding ;
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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 ,
thy seed also ,
may be numbered .
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Rise !
go up and down in the land ,
to the length thereof and to the breadth thereof ,
for to thee ,
will I give it .
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So Abram moved his tent and came in and dwelt among the oaks of Mamre ,
which were in Hebron ,
and built there an altar to Yahweh .
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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 Goim ,
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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 Zeboim ,
and the king of Belathe same ,
is Zoar .
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All these ,
joined together in the valley of the open fields ,
the same ,
is the Salt Sea .
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Twelve years ,
had they served Chedorlaomer ,
but in the thirteenth year had they rebelled ;
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and in the fourteenth year ,
had Chedorlaomer come in and the kings who were with him ,
so they 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 ,
as far as El-paran ,
which is by the desert .
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So they returned and came in unto En-mishpat ,
the same ,
is Kadish ,
and smote all the field of the Amalekites ,
and the Amorites also that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar ,
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Thus then went forth the King of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah ,
and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboim ,
and the king of Bela the same ,
is Zoarand set themselves in array against them for battle ,
in the valley of the open fields :
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against Chedorlaomer king of Elam ,
and Tidal king of Goim ,
and Amraphel king of Shinar ,
and Arioch king of Ellasar ,
four kings against five .
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Now ,
the valley of the open fields ,
had many pits of bitumen ,
so the king of Sodom and Gomorrah fled ,
and fell there ,
while ,
they who remained ,
towards a mountain ,
fled .
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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 ,
Abrams brothers son with his goods ,
and went their way ,
he ,
being a dweller in Sodom .
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Then came in a fugitive ,
and told Abram the Hebrew ,
he ,
having his dwelling among the oaks of Mature the Amorite brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner ,
they ,
also having a covenant with Abram .
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So Abram ,
hearing that his brother had been taken captive ,
drew 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 as far as Hobah ,
which was on the left of Damascus .
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So he brought back all the goods ,
yea Lot also his brother with his goods ,
did he bring back ,
and the women also ,
and the people .
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Then came forth the king of Sodom to meet him ,
after his return from the smiting of Chedorlaomer ,
and the kings who were with him ,
into the vale of Shaveh the same ,
was the vale of the king .
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flow Melchizedek king of Salem ,
had brought forth bread and wine ,
he ,
being priest of GOD Most High .
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So he blessed him and said ,
Blessed be Abram of GOD Most High ,
possessor of heavens and earth ;
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And blessed be GOD Most High ,
who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand .
So he gave unto him a tenth of all .
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Then said the king of Sodom unto Abram ,
Give unto me the persons ,
but the goods ,
take thou for thyself .
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And Abram said unto the king of Sodom ,
I have lifted up my hand unto Yahweh GOD Most High ,
possessor of heavens and earth :
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That not from a thread even unto a sandal-thong ,
will I take ,
anything ,
that is thine ,
Lest thou shouldst say ,
I ,
enriched Abram !
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Save only what the young men have eaten ,
and the share of the men who went with me ,
Aner ,
Eshcol ,
and Mamre ,
they may rake their share .
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After these things ,
came the word of Yahweh unto Abram ,
in a vision saying ,
Do not fear Abram ,
am a shield to thee ,
thine exceeding great reward .