Genesis:12-14
nsb@Genesis:12:1 @ Jehovah said to Abram: »Leave your country, your people, and your fathers household, and go to the land I will show you.
nsb@Genesis:12:2 @ »I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing.
nsb@Genesis:12:3 @ »I will bless those who bless you. I will curse whoever curses you. All the people on earth will be blessed through you.«
nsb@Genesis:12:4 @ So Abram left, just as Jehovah told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Haran.
nsb@Genesis:12:5 @ He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran. They set out for the land of Canaan and soon arrived there.
nsb@Genesis:12:6 @ Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
nsb@Genesis:12:7 @ Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: »I will give this land to your offspring.« He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him.
nsb@Genesis:12:8 @ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent. Bethel was on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Jehovah and called on the name of Jehovah.
nsb@Genesis:12:9 @ Abram continued toward the Negev.
nsb@Genesis:12:10 @ There was a famine in the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while, because the famine was severe.
nsb@Genesis:12:11 @ He was about to enter Egypt. He said to his wife Sarai: »I know what a beautiful woman you are.
nsb@Genesis:12:12 @ »When the Egyptians see you, they will say: This is his wife. Then they will kill me, but will let you live.
nsb@Genesis:12:13 @ »Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.«
nsb@Genesis:12:14 @ When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she was a very beautiful woman.
nsb@Genesis:12:15 @ Pharaohs officials saw her. They praised her to Pharaoh. She was taken into his palace.
nsb@Genesis:12:16 @ He treated Abram well for her sake. Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
nsb@Genesis:12:17 @ Jehovah inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abrams wife Sarai.
nsb@Genesis:12:18 @ So Pharaoh summoned Abram. »What have you done to me?« he asked. »Why did you not tell me she was your wife?
nsb@Genesis:12:19 @ »Why did you say: She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!«
nsb@Genesis:12:20 @ Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.
nsb@Genesis:13:1 @ Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him.
nsb@Genesis:13:2 @ Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
nsb@Genesis:13:3 @ He traveled from place to place from the Negev until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier.
nsb@Genesis:13:4 @ This was where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of Jehovah.
nsb@Genesis:13:5 @ Lot moved about with Abram. He also had flocks and herds and tents.
nsb@Genesis:13:6 @ But the land could not support them while they stayed together. Their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.
nsb@Genesis:13:7 @ Quarreling arose between Abrams herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
nsb@Genesis:13:8 @ Abram said to Lot: »Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
nsb@Genesis:13:9 @ »Is not the whole land before you? Let us part company. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left.«
nsb@Genesis:13:10 @ Lot looked up and saw that the district of the Jordan River was well watered, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, toward Zoar. This was before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
nsb@Genesis:13:11 @ So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company:
nsb@Genesis:13:12 @ Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom.
nsb@Genesis:13:13 @ The men of Sodom were wicked and sinned greatly against Jehovah.
nsb@Genesis:13:14 @ After Lot had parted from Abram, Jehovah said to Abram: »Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west.
nsb@Genesis:13:15 @ »All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring from generation to generation.
nsb@Genesis:13:16 @ »I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust, your offspring could be counted.
nsb@Genesis:13:17 @ »Go walk through the length and breadth of the land that I am giving to you.«
nsb@Genesis:13:18 @ Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. He built an altar to Jehovah there.
nsb@Genesis:14:1 @ In the days of King Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim,
nsb@Genesis:14:2 @ these four kings made war with King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Zoar.
nsb@Genesis:14:3 @ These joined forces in the Valley of Siddim at the Dead Sea.
nsb@Genesis:14:4 @ They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years. They rebelled in the thirteenth year.
nsb@Genesis:14:5 @ In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and subdued the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
nsb@Genesis:14:6 @ and the Horites in the hill country of Seir as far as El-paran on the edge of the wilderness.
nsb@Genesis:14:7 @ They turned back and came to En-mishpat, and subdued all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
nsb@Genesis:14:8 @ Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Zoar went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim.
nsb@Genesis:14:9 @ They fought against King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Shinar, and King Arioch of Ellasar, four kings against five.
nsb@Genesis:14:10 @ The Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits. As the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them. The rest fled to the hill country.
nsb@Genesis:14:11 @ The enemy took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food provisions, and went their way.
nsb@Genesis:14:12 @ They also captured Lot, son of Abrams brother, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
nsb@Genesis:14:13 @ Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. He was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. They were Abrams allies.
nsb@Genesis:14:14 @ Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive. Abram led his trained men, born in his house, three hundred eighteen of them, in pursuit as far as Daniel.
nsb@Genesis:14:15 @ He divided his forces against them by night. He and his servants routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
nsb@Genesis:14:16 @ Then he brought back all the goods. He also brought back his nephew Lot and all the men and women.
nsb@Genesis:14:17 @ As soon as the king of Sodom returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, he went out to meet Abram at the King's Valley of Shaveh.
nsb@Genesis:14:18 @ King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
nsb@Genesis:14:19 @ He blessed him and said: »Blessed be Abram by God Most High, maker of heaven and earth.
nsb@Genesis:14:20 @ »Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!« Abram gave him one tenth of everything.
nsb@Genesis:14:21 @ Then the king of Sodom said to Abram: »Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.«
nsb@Genesis:14:22 @ But Abram said to the king of Sodom: »I have sworn to Jehovah, God Most High, maker of heaven and earth:
nsb@Genesis:14:23 @ "I will take nothing. Not a thread or a sandal strap. You will not be able to say: 'I have made Abram rich.
nsb@Genesis:14:24 @ »Let the young men who came with me take their portion: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre.«
nsb@Genesis:15:1 @ The word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision: »Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield. Your reward shall be very great.«
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