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And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of
Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that
were
with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which
is
the king’s
dale.
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And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he
was
the priest of the
most high God.
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And he blessed him, and said, Blessed
be
Abram of the most high God, possessor
of heaven and earth:
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And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into
thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
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And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the
persons, and take the goods to thyself.
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And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine
hand unto the L
ORD
, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
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That I will not
take
from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that
is
thine, lest thou shouldest
say, I have made Abram rich:
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Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion
of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
CHAPTER 15
After these things the word of the L
ORD
came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I
am
thy shield,
and
thy exceeding great reward.
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And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give
me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
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And Abram
said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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And,
behold, the word of the L
ORD
came
unto him, saying, This 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 tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto
him, So shall thy seed be.
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And he believed in the L
ORD
; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
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And he said unto him, I
am
the L
ORD
that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this
land to inherit it.
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And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
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And he
said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of
three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
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And he took unto him all these, and divided
them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
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And
when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
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And when the sun was
going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
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And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land
that is
not
theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
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And also that nation,
whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
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And
thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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But in the fourth
generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites
is
not yet full.
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And it
came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a
burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
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In the same day the L
ORD
made a covenant with
Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river,
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